If only Alstom had locked Dublin in with a section of APS - that would have fixed it (send memo to sales department that in future this oversight won’t be tolerated, anything less than what the marks and rubes, err, that is “esteemed partners in transportation excellence”, in Rio and Sydney bought will be considered a slack effort).

Tony

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> For a more modern system we can note that Dublin, with significant sections of on road operations, which opened in 2004 with Citadis trams equivalent to Melbourne as their standard modern tram have now advanced to 9 section Citadis trams (or LRVs we are only talking semantics here). With Alstom being forced to provide trams of an equivalent length to Budapest to keep CAF and Siemens "off their territory".

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