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Re: Bayside,Hillside sale.

David McLoughlin (davemcl@REMOVEiprolink.co.nz) wrote:
> David Bromage wrote:
> >
> > Immediately before the change of government in 1993, MetTram had almost
> > clinched getting funding to extend the 42/109 to Box Hill and the 48 to
> > Westfield Doncaster. The grand plan was then to link the two (along Tram
> > Rd?) by about 2000.

> I have heard this story but never seen it in print, only on the Net.

Somebody from the Met spoke about it at ARE. I think the new government
hushed it up.

> The section called Tram Road is named after the route of the first
> electric tramway in the Southern Hemisphere, from where Shoppingtown now
> is to Box Hill station. In the 1880s/90s there was no demand for such a
> remote tram route

It wasn't built for commuter purposes. It was built specifically to take
prospoctive land buyers from Box Hill to the area intended to be developed
for housing.

Cheers
David