Re: Melbourne's Icons (was Melbourne's Anti-tram Lord Mayor)

[David McLoughlin <davemcl@REMOVEiprolink.co.nz>]

neumannc wrote:
> 
> David McLoughlin wrote:
> >
> > Jeff B. Kurland wrote:
> > >
> > 've heard an idea that's even sillier than that!  Some people think
> > > they can replace trams (streetcars/light rail) with unguided rubber
> > > tired vehicles powered by dirty internal combustion engines.
> >
> > I've met a few people like that, too. What strange ideas some folk have.
> 
> But these people have old fashioned ideas, if they were really up to
> date they would know you would put the unguided rubber tyred vehicles on
> a "bus only roadway" and call it a transitway.  By doing this you would
> acheive the same successful public transport provided along the "bus
> only lanes" in downtown Sydbey.

Even more far-sighted people would then work out that the transit
vehicle would run more smoothly and carry more people more efficiently
if it were on tracks, and produce less pollution if it were powered by
electricity.

Goodness knows what kind of transit service we would have if such a
radical idea was taken to its conclusion.

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand