Simpson st siding works from sun 25th October to sun 1st November & royal
park renewal works 14th November to 1st December
On Sat, 19 Sep. 2020, 10:57 am timmy1041, timmy1041@...> wrote:
> Hey all.
> Richard thanks so much for the info,interesting to see that
> E's will be running route 30 so the latest arrivals can build up service
> Km's.,as route 30 is a Southbank route,what will happen to the Preston new
> arrivals?Surely a better solution would be to keep the route 12 via Latrobe
> st as the main route and use the E Class instead of A's and possibly use
> them for a new Collins st daytime shuttle from 7 am to 7 pm between
> Docklands and St.Vincents plaza or East Melbourne.Is all this dependent on
> the covid situation,and could the current service changes stay around
> longer?
>
>
> Regards Tim Strait
> On Wednesday, 16 September 2020 at 06:14:21 UTC+10 Richard Youl wrote:
>
>> From ‘the man on the inside’:
>>
>> “Hi Richard,
>>
>> Okay, to Tim's requests:
>>
>> - there will be a new master timetable introduced in early November
>> (MTT20B) - that means MTT20A will only last for about three months
>> - two additional city circle trams will be added (four per direction)
>> creating a 15 minute headway in lieu of the current 20 min.
>> - E-class trams will replace A-class trams on line 30 to allow the
>> latest additions of that class to build up operating kilometres
>> - it is still proposed to introduce E-class trams (provided by
>> Southbank and operated by Southbank and Tram Hub) to route 58, replacing
>> the D-class trams that are supplied by Malvern with the introduction of
>> MTT21A (sometime in May 2021)
>> - due to the changing nature of the various infrastructure projects,
>> the timeline for many have become too fluid to fix a date, therefore the YT
>> website does not show them too far in advance
>> - similarly, cascade plans have slowed due to the ongoing pandemic
>> making the allocation of rolling stock on a permanent basis difficult
>> - with the removal of D-class vehicles on line 58, there will be two
>> vehicle classes that Tram Hub drivers will no longer be trained (W & D)”
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard
>>
>> On 15 Sep 2020, at 12:50 pm, timmy1041 timm...@...> wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Message for Richard Youl...
>> As we are moving closer to November and you asked me to
>> remind you,would it be possible to confirm with your 'man on the inside" as
>> to whether this is still scheduled to go ahead,and has there been any
>> change to the plans for the E's on the 58 and finally why the yearly track
>> work updates which list the works on a month by month basis have been
>> removed from the YT website,as well as any other info regarding tram
>> cascades or anything else.
>>
>> Regards Tim Strait
>>
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