On 11 January 2018 at 21:18, Richard Youltressteleg@...
[TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:
> One of the few good things to come out of transport privatisation was that the government no longer owned any buses so had to stop using buses instead of some tram services


I thought the buses went into private ownership well before the trams
and trains did in 1999?

But anyway... The other catalyst for no longer replacing trams with
buses on Sundays (from memory it was routes 3, 77, 57, 82; maybe
others?) was the removal of conductors. This caused problems on a lot
of routes before Metcard came in, but it also meant there was no
labour saving running a bus compared to a driver-only tram.

Daniel