That open space will disappear soon enough when the criminals responsible for this destruction - Jeff McCloy et al - throw up their Chinese Wall of high rise along the waterfront.

And there is no tram, and probably never will be. Everything this government has done is an unmitigated disaster and the damage will last for decades. The exposure by Four Corners of their traducing and corruption of the management of the Murray-Darling catchment is only the latest obscenity among countless atrocities agains the environment. They are the living definition of the term “coprophile”.

I don’t know why you feel the need to shill for these maggots - you’re either being provocative or you have some squalid urge to demean yourself.

Tony G

> On 25 Jul 2017, at 7:54 pm,prescottt@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> I think it's looking great now with all that ugly electrification clutter gone and accessible open space across to the waterfront! That's what it was all about. The tram will be a far more elegant solution for this part of town.

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> What those not familiar with Newcastle don't understand is that there is no longer a Newcastle CBD here as a focal point for a "grand railway terminus". Newcastle has decentred westwards, a trend that was happening for years and finalised by the earthquake. The east end is now about residential and the harbour/beaches, analogous to Sydney's eastern suburbs. There is no "railway tragedy" here, just a functional change in the urban environment and a transport adjustment that reflects that.

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> I think it's funny in the older video seeing the old 620 class being the only train moving around with a bit of oomph while the modern trains, rated at 145 km/h, crawl around like slugs at what looks like 45 km/h. A reminder of the good old days of NSW railways before it all went to pot.

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> Tony P

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