If headways are ‘too’ close trams tend to bunch. This is particularly inefficient. Casual observations were that this happened on the 42 Mont Albert in the pm peak.

Regards,

On 25 Apr 2019, at 1:30 pm, Brian bblunt@...> wrote:

From a passenger perspective, a single tram every four minutes would be better than a coupled tram every eight minutes. Until the service becomes too popular and they need a coupled tram every four minutes.

But the limiting factors would be double the wages cost, and too much "interference" with the road networks. But if "one tram replaces nine buses", there are still considerable cost savings.

Brian

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Greg Sutherland wrote:

> Experienced operators are avoiding the extra costs and less effective utilisation of vehicle footprint by turning away from coupled set operations.


Yes indeed. I think the key word in your observation is "experienced".

I wonder how long those ungainly coupled Citadis sets will stay coupled?

Probably not even as long as it will take for overhead wires to be installed from Town Hall to Circular Quay, I suspect.

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