Dale Budd wrote:

> Last year’s Victorian state budget referred to “detailed design and

planning for next generation trams”, to begin in the forthcoming financial
year.

While I doubtless haven't seen every model of tram now on the world
markets, I have seen and been on many of them. IMO the Melbourne Es are up
there with the world's best trams.

So it will be interesting to see what kind of "next generation trams" the
Melbourne bureaucrats will come up with.

Presumably something smaller, to replace the Zs. More three-section
Citadises would do the trick :-)

Mal Rowe wrote:

> 6077 was in the testing area at Preston today, and I think it's the

latest to be delivered. If that's right, and unless I have missed some
announcement, there are now only 3 more E class to be delivered.

The original contract was 50 trams with an option for 100 more, so what a
pity to see the run of this very good tram halted at, it seems, 90 with the
extra 10 I recall being dripped out, perhaps before the last state election..

They will certainly need to get 200 more new trams quickly from somewhere
to replace the Zs and As. Off the shelf would be good. Oh wait...

--
david mcloughlin, New Zealand
"Better to be a Never Was than a Has Been."