Mick, although the CSELR is designed to enable two minute headways, it was
decided that this was too close for traffic light priority to be provided
on the many cross-streets along the route - and if priority isn't provided,
you soon get trams starting to clump. This is solvable in the long term
with the political will to face up to controlling the amount of car traffic
in the city. In the meantime, they decided to get 60 metre sets to make up
the capacity.

As I said in another post, a 45 metre tram would probably work better in
Sydney (we're getting that in Parramatta). However, the problem is just as
much that they're fixed truck trams. Absolutely the wrong sort of trams for
Sydney's meandering routes, but the consortium system (packaged tenders),
the marketing power and financial deals of the big manufacturers of
fixed-truck trams like Alstom and CAF and local technical ignorance put
paid to that.

Tony P

On Saturday, 4 September 2021 at 02:11:24 UTC+10 Mick Duncan wrote:

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> Gday David, All

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> If the new Syd tramway ran one tram instead of two coupled trams

> they could half the headway and get around the corners quicker

> thus cutting the running time and attract more passengers

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> This would mean more drivers,but who cares, the tax payer is paying

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> Silly me

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> Cheers, Mick

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