Re: Batman Avenue Trams Finished!

["Michael Walker" <walker@hotkey.net.au>]

>The tram shelter at the terminus is manned for the buses, the buses need to
do
>U-turns and the Yarra Trams flagman signals cars to give way.  Curiously,
the
>quaint "Next Car" indicator lights are operating - ironically there never
will
>be a next car.  Interestingly, brochures and timetables for the new route
70 are
>available from the booth at this shelter - although the information desk at
>Flinders Street station denies existence of any such new timetables.  This
>timetable will be very short lived, it comes into effect on 7th June, but
will
>be replaced by a new timetable implementing the increased Sunday
frequencies on
>4th July.  The tram-replacement bus service up Batman Avenue will cease on
that
>date.  Eventually, the entire road will be removed so that the Federation
Square
>development will run right down to the Yarra River.


Looking on their website, the old timetable is still there. If you go into
the bulletin section, it makes mention of the temporary arrangements but you
need to know to know to go in there or chance upon it. I hope they are
quicker putting the timetables on the web than buslines normally are (I
think Yarra Trams site is now managed by buslines.com.au). They really need
something to mention the temporary arrangements or point to where they can
be found on the main route 70 page. And publishing the old timetable might
be a more likely prospect for legal action for services not rendered than
the Passenger Charter being violated.