An extremely poor show putting people out in the rain.

No doubt the driver was required in the depot sooner than the time it would take to do the right thing and proceed to the next crossover near the casino, letting passengers off on the way. That could happen if doing that extra kilometre would shorten his meal break so much that he would not be available to take his next tram afterwards.

Or he may have already reached his 4 hours 45 minutes of driving, a limit dictated by law.

With privatisation each depot no longer has staff on standby for some emergency situation, including doing fill-ins, block cars or to do a changeover of defectives.

The rule, at least in the past, was to only put passages off if the next tram was immediately behind.

I'm not saying that this was always precisely followed in the days of the MET, but generally would have been.

Of course I never put anyone off at Montague largely because there was no depot or crossover there at the time. :-)

Regards,

> On 12 Sep 2017, at 4:56 pm,mcloughlin.dj@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> Yuri Sos wrote:

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> > ... but that's Standard Operating Procedure for Yarra Trams who love to throw passengers out at Montague in the pouring rain rather than at Clarendon Junction

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> Why do they short-shunt at Montague, Yuri? They were doing that even when Judith and I were living at North Port in 2009. We'd be dumped in the rain at Montague and have to walk, especially at night.

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> One night, a woman in a wheelchair was one of those dumped. She refused to get off the tram, demanding a para-taxi be sent for her. Eventually her friends pushed her home in the rain.

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> That next tram moments behind never turned up by the time we walked to North Port, but I must say the daytime services were bloody good on that line,

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> david mcl

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