All of Greg's points are true, but the greatest obstacle to easy interoperability is that any CSELR tram purloined for inner west service will have to shed half its consist as the inner west platforms are only long enough for 30 metre trams. It's quite feasible but requires a bit of uncoupling work at Randwick depot before the trams are despatched. And then if the tram is suddenly needed back in the city on heavy duty, it has to find its other half.

The other problem is that there's only one turnout in one direction at Hay and George - in the Circular Quay direction, requiring an APS-equipped tram and certainly no direct route to the SE. I think it would be all too hard for the poor dears. Best to keep it simple and separate in NSW.

Tony P
---InTramsDownUnder@..., <arg@...> wrote :

This TfNSW stupidity-on-a-stick finally gets the mainstream attention it deserves :

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/why-sydneys-new-light-rail-trams-wont-carry-passengers-on-inner-west-line-20170725-gxida4.html http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/why-sydneys-new-light-rail-trams-wont-carry-passengers-on-inner-west-line-20170725-gxida4.html

Check out the “explanation" from the TfNSW spokes-stooge - idiotic gibberish expressed in the dumbest corporate crap speak imaginable.

TfNSW - where the fish rots from the head.

(Well done Greg Sutherland for your comments)

Tony G