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Re: Yarra Trams given to Metrolink




Bill Bolton <billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org> wrote in message
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> "John Wayman" <trecker@bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> > very heavily patronised. The old Munitions, Ordnance and Explosive
Factories
> > are being replaced by housing which will generate a lot of new traffic.
>
> Time will tell, but it probably won't generate much, if any additioanl
> traffic.  Inbound traffic to the factories is unlikely to be matched
> by outbound traffic from the houses.

But very few people working at these factories used the tram, the motor car
was king.

At least the houses will be higher density than the older residential
suburbs, hence generation more kids and old age pensioners as time
progresses,

Cheers
John Wayman