Matthew,

The Poles don't have a problem with using bus and tram stops. Here's an
image from Krakow.

On Tue, 11 Sep 2018, 5:24 PM Matthew Geier matthew@...>
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> On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 at 09:30, 'Richard Youl' via TramsDownUnder <

>tramsdownunder@...> wrote:

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>> Also it would mean training all bus drivers to go through the stops

>> particularly in tram replacement situations and it’s not worth training

>> hundreds of drivers who may need to use that knowledge once in a blue moon.

>> That’s what a worker in the operation section told me.

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>> If you treat all your drivers as ignorant oafs , that is all you will get.

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> In Europe they appear to expect their bus drivers to operate their

> vehicles with precision. Buses and trams sharing stops is common all over

> Germany for example. Artics manage to pull up along side tram platforms

> with all 4 doors next to the platform with 'like on rails' precision.

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> Except the 'non in Europe UK'. were they appear to hire minimum wage

> drivers in from Poland who can't even speak English, run them over the

> route once, hand them a UK bus license and turn them loose. I'm sure this

> situation is what our bus operators aspire to, not the German model.

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