We can all make suggestions based on what we have seen and experienced in various parts of the world but if we have no degree from a university which could have taught students anything at all, then our opinions count for nothing.
I know what you mean about long drives...
But if you can somehow struggle to Tweed Heads you could catch the 700 bus to Broadbeach South. You could thus snooze for 45 minutes during the ride but at around 4am you could have a speedy 30 minute trip.
And if I knew when you were coming I could struggle to Parkwood on my bicycle and meet you at BBS...
Regards,
Richard
On 15 Feb 2018, at 8:04 pm, 'Dudley Horscroft'transitconsult@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:
I certainly would not be a "well publicized NSW consultant", perhaps rather an infamous or notorious maker of suggestions most of
which are intended to be sensible, but quite a few are more in the lines of "Tongue in the cheek".
Haven't been up to ride the extension yet, I am afflicted by those diseases of the later middle aged, laziness and procrastination!
As it is, since the meeting back in December, I rode the tram up Lygon Street (!), then I have been to Auckland for the RSCM Summer
School, where I managed to get in a short time at MOTAT, and to Sydney for State Council. Down to Sydney by train, then in the
evening had dinner with my niece and her family, and then back north by train. Only four passengers I think on the bus from Casino
to the coast - but remember this was Sunday evening! I think they are using better buses on this route now, as I did not feel
seasick in either direction - going to Casino was helped by having had a bottle of cider before the start!
What with handing over my duties as Treasurer for the Friends of the Tweed Heads Library, Bible Study, Book Club, reading books and
newspapers, I never seem to have time to do anything energetic! (Such as driving to Broadbeach and then catching a tram!)
Regards
Dudley Horscroft
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Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2018 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: TRAMWAY FIRE HOSE 'BRIDGES'
Yes, Dudley. I have already been admonished for missing your name. I just don’t remember you being a well-publicised NSW consultant.
Funny that although you are a virtual neighbour just ‘down the road’ at the NSW border, I had to go to Melbourne to actually meet
you face to face :-)
Have you been up to ride the tram extension yet?
Regards,
Richard.
On 15 Feb 2018, at 7:04 pm, 'Dudley Horscroft'transitconsult@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...>
wrote:
Re your question, Richard, the answer is me and my brothers.
Regards
Dudley Horscroft
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From: "Richard Youltressteleg@... [TramsDownUnder]" TramsDownUnder@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: TRAMWAY FIRE HOSE 'BRIDGES'
Intercity Rail, eh?
I don’t think Sydney’s trams will do 125 MPH. More like 125 Metres Per Hour, at least when nonsensical fiddling around is required
to reverse a tram. Maybe changing to battery traction for a few hundred metres will be faster (if equipped).
By the way, has anything useful at all, besides Howard Collins, ever come to NSW from England?
Regards,
On 14 Feb 2018, at 1:17 pm, Greg Sutherlandgregsutherland@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:
But that was done by the consultants engaged by TfNSW. Those
consultants were ex British Railways and were experts in Inter City rail
operations!
Greg
Richard wrote:
"Then that was really brilliant engineering placing those two operation
so close together.
Obviously nobody bothered to think about the logistics of operation when
the crossover had to be used.
These so-called engineers should consider another type of engineering
more in keeping with their abilities - driving trains in America"