Tony,
I don’t mean to be picky but let us wait until the novelty value wears off in a month or two. It may even drop back to much the same as the train. We shall see.
Geoff O.

From: Prescott
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2019 10:16 AM
To: TramsDownUnder
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Newcastle tramway opening

Figures have been released that show that the Newcastle line carried 120,000 people in March, that's an average of 4,000 a day. TfNSW, in its characteristic habit of under-estimating trams, projected 2,500 trips a day. In March the entire Newcastle bus network carried about 450,000. So the tram, one "quiet" little line at the eastern extremity of the city, carried more than a quarter of the passengers of the entire Newcastle bus network. Also, for those still nursing a grudge about the cutback of the Newcastle rail line, the latter never carried anything like that number between Wickham and Newcastle station in recent years.

Tony P