RE: Re: Canberra 'live:
  Paul Nicholson

Tony

What I detest (if that’s the word) is men who sit on crowded trams – in the V position and usually occupying two seats – and drop a nice juicy fart.

Second is groups of young men on trams who describe their sexual activities – in great detail. Happens quite often especially on Monday afternoons when “comparing notes” about their weekend “activities”.

Paul in Melbourne

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Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Canberra 'live:

Great stuff thanks Matthew. Gee Canberra is a desolate hole! The trip took about 5 minutes longer than schedule but the reasons are obvious in the video and there's probably no particular schedule for this occasion. Note the dark-coloured stanchions to reduce their visual impact, something that they should be doing in Sydney. Despite the horrible concrete runway, it generally looks a lot better than CSELR. I see that they've left space between the tracks for a future stop at the industrial area, good forward-thinking if you insist on centre-island platforms. I'm a bit mystified by the drop in speed limts to 50 (then alternating back up to 60) along Northbourne Ave. There seems no reason for it but at least there's no sign of Sydney-style over-zealous micromanagement nor meaningless 10 km/h crawls into stops.

I detect the influence of the German operator in the livelier driving style and the effort to render the standard gong into a something resembling a more effective clatter gong. I've been hanging out for a Central European operator to be given a contract here for years, so the wait is over! The less of the French the better, they just don't know how to run tramways properly and it's taking them too long to learn. You need a long tradition of doing it which the French simply don't have. Trying to reinvent it from scratch is a disastrous path and we all pay for it with poorer service.

Tony P


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