GCLR2 Photos today
  Richard Youl

The first photo shows the westbound exit tunnel of the current Hospital terminus.

Photo 2 proves that new trams will be arriving tomorrow and Thursday nights.. Two more to come. Last time the trams were unloaded at Queen St so in theory trams could be curtailed and still operated from Broadbeach South to Southport. Then I realised that as unloading could take quite a while, those trams still in service could be blocked from entering the depot for many hours. Also for the first time I saw trams parked on the 2 new depot roads which were built during the year. As this part of the site is almost certainly built out, any southern extension is likely to require a second depot.

Photo 3, just a gentle reminder.

Photo 4 at the Griffith University stop shows a few things. Firstly, the two trams passing here indicates that both are exactly on time. The previous tram on which I arrived here from Southport crossed the southbound tram a few hundred metres further away, having just changed drivers at the depot. It also shows new speed limit signs erected along the line.

There used to be yellow signs with black writing giving the tram speed limits but it looks like some Health and Safety idiot, keen to prove that they were actually justifying their jobs, came up with these. The old yellow signs would mean nothing to motorists while these clearly are standard road speed signs.

Also more nonsense is that the babble of announcements on trams tells passengers to hang on as the tram is starting. What next? The more babble, the less it is listened too.

Additionally at the Hospital terminus they have installed pedestrian traffic lights where passengers are liable to cross the tracks at the west end of the platforms. They are not turned on yet, but presumably will default to red for pedestrians. Sure to be the most ignored lights on the tramway.

QR trains, after announcing that the train is stopping at XYZ station goes on to remind passengers that if this is their station, they should get ready to leave the train here. Nanny State, and more H&S parasites justifying their jobs.

Regards,


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