It must be an absolute living hell for those perfectionists who are forced to reside in a country which is unable to get any single civic or environmental thing done in the in the proper manner, which is so obviously done so very much better on a continuous basis by our European cousins and antecedents. (But only those graced to be enabled the privilege of living east of the Oder of course)
I give thanks daily that I live in a free country that I chose to immigrate to, to travel across the world, and to gratefully take out citizenship for at the first opportunity. It really is a crying shame that there are those who live in such abject povertyand continual discontent that they are not able to afford a passport and the expense of air fare to go and lived in paradise?

Been there, done that, all over, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland,Spain, peep into Italy, , much prefer Australia thank you very much.

Them's my sentiments, for what they may be worth?

Happy to live here and reasonably content.

...'Grumpy'

On 12/04/2015 7:04 PM,prescottt@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:
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> If you eventually make it over to Europe Tony you will see tram operations moving masses of people on a scale beside which IWLR is a mere tadpole - and unidirectional as well, meaning they require ferocious operational discipline because the cheap "crisis-management" (i.e. mismanagement) cop-out of an unscheduled short working is not available to them. (LInes do often have intermediate turning loops but I've never seen them used for unscheduled short-workings.)

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> Even in Budapest though, which is the world's largest bidirectional stubbed system, they still seem to manage highly reliable service. All of these operations also battle with intrusions on the tramway of various sorts, whether traffic, accidents, traffic lights etc. Any of them would absolutely envy the quarantined operating environment of IWLR.

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> Which means, back here at the ranch .... only one thing. The word starting with i and ending with e.

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> The blame for the IWLR mess is shared between TfNSW and Transdev. In fairness to Transdev, TfNSW has bequeathed them a single-track stub at the outer terminus (originally Lilyfield, then Dulwich Hill), which means a timetable without recovery time (indeed without any layover time at all) because one terminus allows absolutely no redundancy. Ordering trams with too few doors also hasn't helped. Neither has crippling the line with APS and promiscuous speed limits.

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> The only "positive" is that the general incompetence is common to all street public transport operation in NSW and thus the trams cannot possibly appear in a worse light than the buses. "Flexibility" is an operational byword for anarchy.

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> Tony P

> (who has observed and noted also that trolleybus operations have greater discipline than diesel bus operations for obvious reasons)

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

> Another fairly typical IWLR Sunday. But really, operating discipline, when the control room knows the location of every car on the line at all times is a bit slack. It was obvious that 2101 was being shunted at Lewisham to fill a big gap by moving it ahead of the preceding car, but there was bunching that shouldn’t be allowed on an operation like this with some competent timekeeping.

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> Tony G

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