Chapel st night time 20 minutes each way on public holidays 40 minutes each
way & they wonder why trams ran early to not run early you would have to
lay up at every stop one word comes to mind pathetic

On 13 Jan 2018 22:57, "Richard Youltressteleg@...
[TramsDownUnder]" TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> There has been a major change with the new contracts which is probably a

> factor in worse results and that is that there are now seven time points

> along each route. The company is in trouble if a tram is more than 59

> seconds early and more than ‘so many minutes’ late. On quite a few routes

> there is just nowhere you can park a tram running early and you piss

> everybody else off running along at 15 or 20 km/h to maintain the timetable.

>

> Nobody else seems to agree with me but this system of fines and bonuses is

> quite ludicrous when applied to a street tramway. A bus running early can

> somewhere or another pull over to the kerb and wait and that is not

> possible for trams.

>

> I have my own ideas about how timetables should be set out but I doubt

> anybody would agree with me, based on more or less even spacing but not

> tied to the clock.

>

> Incidentally it seems that some drivers apply the 59 seconds early rule to

> leaving a terminus. More than once a tram was arriving at Luna Park city

> bound just seconds after it should have left the terminus hundreds of

> metres away.

>

> Regards,

>

> On 13 Jan 2018, at 7:03 pm, Mal Rowemal.rowe@... [TramsDownUnder] <

>TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> On 13/01/2018 7:05 PM,prescottt@... [TramsDownUnder] wrote:

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> Well, this is the system apparently - it appears to be across the board:

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> https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/about-ptv/victorias-public-

> transport-network/performance-monitoring/

>

> According to the 2017 PTV annual report, train and tram had about 98%

> service delivery, buses nearly 100%.

>

>

> Read the linked document carefully. It says:

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> "Buses

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> Bus operators in Melbourne are required to keep records of the punctuality

> and reliability of at least five per cent of their timetabled services.

> These records are then forwarded to Public Transport Victoria each month.

>

> In addition to this a bus tracking system has been deployed across the

> metropolitan bus network to provide real time information to passengers and

> monitor the punctuality of services."

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> Mal Rowe - who would never accuse a paid service delivery company of being

> less than scrupulously honest

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