On 17/5/19 10:39 am, Greg King wrote:
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> Hardly the first! They love their spin but so glad to see this happening. Are they going back to CAF Urbos cars for this line?

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The consortium of which CAF is the vehicle 'partner' won the bid. TfNSW didn't chose the rolling stock - they chose a Build/Operate consortium. Vehicle type/vendor is a detail for the consortium.

> If so, would it not make sense to use the IWLR cars for this and standardise on the Citadis for the city lines? Wonder why they are not using the Citadis for all the lines??

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Because TfNSW have a policy of leaving things like rolling stock and even infrastructure  up to the 'partner' in the bid. Apparently they don't want to stop the 'market' from offering 'innovative' bids.

Just count our selves lucky they didn't select a bid containing CRRC's guided electric bus as the vehicle of choice!.

NSW won't support local industry either - our city route buses are now made in Malaysia and the local bus factory recently closed due to lack of work. I do wonder what our so called 'support economy' is supposed to support is there is no primary industry.... I guess all those sheet metal workers and mechanics now on the dole are not a state cost.