I suppose they will use the same mend it procedure as Melbourne in places like where the Route 12 passes under the light rail 96 at Albert Park.

When it’s flooded, there is too much water to get to the problem. And when it is dry, there is no problem to fix......

Richard

On 17 Jun 2019, at 8:26 pm, Tim Boxsell timbo247@...> wrote:

They need to investigate the cause of this flooding, if transdev are paranoid about 'deep' water maybe someone should suck out the drains nearby to ease the 'ponding' of water.
Of course they would probably have to close the line for a month just to investigate !

Maybe they should fit Wellies to all the trams wheels. LOL.

Regards,

Tim, in not so wet Sydney's sth west.

> On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 14:35, Matthew Geier matthew@...> wrote:

> Walking past today I noticed the scrolling signs saying 'Services

> starting at Convention due to flooding at Capitol Square'. The sign was

> being ignored by a number of people waiting for non existent services.

>

> The water level may have been higher earlier - when I was there it had

> stopped raining.

>

> The Urbos 3 trams are afraid of getting their feet wet. One of the cars

> has been out of service for many months due to damage incurred by

> driving it through 10cm deep water. So they (the operator, Transdev)

> will be quite paranoid as they can't afford to loose another car.

>

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