Um, er, I did a bit better (or is it worse) but from the cab, not the dining tables.

We were a bit late running out of South Melbourne Depot for the 5pm pickup in Nolan St.

When the traffic lights half way along Sturt St went green, keen not to get any later, I notched up 442 a bit more briskly than usual and moments later there was an enormous CRASH from inside the tram.

It turns out that the restauranteurs had a pile of dinner plates sitting on the top of the micro oven and they all slid off and crashed to the floor!

While those men could be prickly at times, they were not angry this time. Maybe they were not supposed to put plates there.

Incidentally for those not familiar with the restaurant route, where the ground is not flat, the grades are so slight that a tram would simply drift to a stop if brakes failed.

Anyway I trust that public pressure and government intervention results in some common sense.

Regards,

On 20 Oct 2018, at 5:50 pm, Mal Rowe mal.rowe@...> wrote:

> On 20/10/2018 5:38 AM, Prescott wrote:

> I did knock over a bottle of wine once (my fault), I hope that's not the blot on the safety record they're referring to.


That may be one of the more serious accidents that has occurred. :-)
It's hard to do much damage at the speed they travel at.

Here's the letter that CTR is sending to very unhappy customers.

Mal Rowe - who reckons risk mitigation should not be interpreted as complete risk avoidance.