.... and look at that track-work heading off in the distance. Crooked as a dog's hind leg.

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From:tramsdownunder@... tramsdownunder@...> on behalf of Mal Rowe mal.rowe@...>
Sent: Saturday, 20 April 2019 6:28 PM
To:tramsdownunder@...
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Car crashes into Adelaide tram stop.

On 20/04/2019 13:48, Prescott wrote:
Thank you Alex. It's an occupational hazard of centre-island platforms that you can't put a protective fence on the back of them like you can with side islands. There are so many problems with centre-island platforms (as the Adelaide operation would have discovered by now, no doubt the reason for side platforms on the extension), tramways are really paying a price for this vogue forced upon them by the roads people. Dennis Cliche outlined Melbourne's concerns with them in an excellent paper presented in Sydney more than a decade ago, but they were steamrollered in Melbourne over it.

Actually, you can have protective fences with platform stops (see first attached pic) and Melbourne now does at each such stop.

The exception was the first couple in High St, Northcote and these are probably the stops that Denis Cliche referred to. They didn't lose that argument again.

See: https://tdu.to/m/195079 https://tdu.to/m/195079/re-melbourne-firemen-hot-and-bothered-by-tram-stops for the earlier design.

William is right about the stop in Flinders St station being congested, but that's mostly related to volume of passengers and long 'races' on the ramps leading to the platforms and not specific to them being centre platforms.

Mal Rowe- now accustomed to getting off trams on either side

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