It was a tongue in cheek comment. Of course rail is the heavy lifting mode,
but the Sydney tramways made a good job of it as a "defacto suburban
railway".

Tony P

On Wednesday, 15 August 2018 06:53:45 UTC+10, Tony Bailey wrote:
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> So you made a claim you admit you can’t support?

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> And heavy rail is supposed to be the heavy lifting mode!

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> Tony Bailey

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> On 15 Aug 2018, at 6:42 am, Prescott lenkap...@... <javascript:>>

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> I know exactly what you mean Tony but it's impossible to get passenger km

> for all systems everywhere. Large numbers of operators/agencies (in fact

> the majority) simply don't publish this figure (critically not the total

> distance figure and often not even the accurate patronage) and if you can't

> get the figure for everyone then you can't do the universal comparison. I

> know, I've tried it, even spoken with academics who've been trying it

> themselves. UITP has tried it and has to come up with an alternative.

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> Tony P

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> On Wednesday, 15 August 2018 05:01:42 UTC+10, Tony Bailey wrote:

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