Re: Route 70 Tram (Melb)

["Johann Fan" <jyfx@optusnet.com.au>]

Christopher_Martin GORDON <cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au> wrote in message
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> : So where is its new terminus going to be?  Spencer/LaTrobe or
Spencer/Flinders.
> : I think I heard in the medium term it would terminate in front of the
old Casino
> : in Flinders St Extension - but there's no track there yet and wont be by
Sunday
> : 6th June.
>
> : BTW the announcement of the new Docklands tram route last week also
included the
> : news that route 48 would be through routed with 34 via the new route.
One fewer
> : route up Spencer Street it seems.  I presume that 75 will still go up
Spencer.
> : Where will 70 go then - will it go around the corner to Docklands
Stadium?
>
> The 70 tram will (when built) contune along Flinders Street and then up
> Footscray Road and terminate some where near the 48/34 in Docklands.

48 will terminate on Victoria Pde in East Melbourne when everything is done

> The way I understand it 48 Docklands via Spencer Stret 70 Docklands via
> Flinders Street/Footscray Road.
>
> 75 is ment to go some where else and 86 use the shunt at the top of
> Spencer Street.

Does that mean that the 86 is turning right at Spencer/Bourke? I thought it
was going down to the new Southbank terminus?