My notes indicate that routes 3, 57 and 82 reverted from buses on Sundays
to (driver-only) trams, in 1993, well ahead of tram privatisation in 1999.
From memory, routes 3 and 77 were combined on Sundays into bus 377, but I
think tram route 77 had been completely deleted earlier in 1993.
On 12 January 2018 at 07:49, Richard Youltressteleg@...
[TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:
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> Yes the buses did go private first, just a step in the process of the
> privatisation dogma.
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> So those quiet time tram services returned during Met days.
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> Regards,
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> On 12 Jan 2018, at 6:27 am, Daniel Bowendanielbowen@...
> [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:
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> 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
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> I thought the buses went into private ownership well before the trams
> and trains did in 1999?
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> 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.
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> Daniel
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