"impossible to fit it though the cutting which is just south of the interim Burleigh terminus." This is nonsense. Perhaps the
so-called 'engineer' was a railway engineer who was thinking of a 25kV railway?

The beauty of a tramway is that it can use segregated track where the room is available and run on street where not, also it can use
overhead, tunnels or track at grade as the situation demands.

View the area on Google maps. From the Brake Street bus turnaround, there are uninterrupted two lanes in each direction. This has
additional widenings for bus stops, car parking, and sometimes widenings for left and right turn lanes at intersections. This is
so to the south side of the Tallebudgera Bridge. The only really constrained sections are the short distance between Cotton Street
and Ikkina Road, and across the Tallebudgera Bridge. The former is 377 metres, less than the distance between two tram stops, so
there would be no problem for other traffic by reason of trams stopping on this section. There isn't much of an emergency lane
however, which means that broken down vehicles are such a small problem it is not necessary to provide for them. Trams in the right
hand lane next to the median strip would be no problem. Ikkina Road to Tallebudgera Drive, across the bridge, is 842 metres, but
there would be a stop at the Tourist Park, where there are already bus stops in lay-bys.

There is no problem here. Nor is there further south at Currumbin Nature Park.

Regards

Dudley Horscroft
----- Original Message -----
From: "'Richard Youl' via TramsDownUnder" tramsdownunder@...>
To: tramsdownunder@...>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 10:58 AM
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Ray Stevens again

This morning tram-hating LNP MP Ray Stevens surprised me by stating clearly that the GC tram line would never go south beyond
Burleigh, stage 3a. He stated that some government engineer told him that it was impossible to fit it though the cutting which is
just south of the interim Burleigh terminus.

If this is true, I wonder why nobody has mentioned it before?

He also stated that even to Burleigh, it would bring high rise housing to the area and that as only 7% of residents near the
existing tramline use the tram or buses, all this would do is clog the roads further. He did not mention that putting the housing,
which had to be built somewhere anyway, would have 100% of the residents driving on the roads.

Regards,