Re: New MTT in November.
  Steven Altham

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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