South Yarra tram stop - a new design
  Mal Rowe

Route 58 is back to normal operation today after installation of the new platform stop st South Yarra Station.

The stop is another variation in design.  It's a Vienna style stop where the roadway is ramped up to footpath level and brought out to the tram line.

The ramped section is also a bicycle path, as the attached pic shows.  Cyclists must of course stop when a tram is stopped, but I wonder how disciplined passengers will be in keeping off the bike path when there is no tram at the stop.

As was leaving I looked out of the front window of the tram and spotted E class 6057 heading east at Punt Rd.  It may have been on a clearance test run for the new stop, or perhaps route familiarisation for the driver.

Mal Rowe - documenting change.

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