Prescient?
These days we can only dream of having people as competent as Neddy S in
charge.
I say that without political bias in SA. I emailed one party about their
tram policy...no reply. The other replied with almost no information. Meh.
On Sun, 28 Nov 2021, 11:11 am Tony Galloway, arg@...> wrote:
> Did you note the contemporary Sydney reference (they were very prescient)
> :
>
> “You can’t build the flats on the Kingsway Subway!”
>
> "Can’t build!!??"
>
> “But I’ve already had the dropsy from-m-m-m, err, why not?”
>
> Some things never change…
>
> Tony
>
> On 28 Nov 2021, at 8:42 am, Mark Skinner emessk@...> wrote:
>
> I prefer this as being more relevant to Trams Down Under.
>
> https://youtu.be/zW8NNSqBjFU
>
> On Sat, 27 Nov 2021, 9:56 pm Tony Galloway, arg@...> wrote:
>
>> It’s like that Goon Show trope where a character like Neddy Seagoon says,
>> “the gang of navvies was hard at work”.
>>
>> Followed by silence, then a single “tink”.
>>
>> Then more silence before another character speaks.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>> On 27 Nov 2021, at 7:28 pm, 'bblunt3473@yahoo.com' via TramsDownUnder <
>>tramsdownunder@...> wrote:
>>
>> The George St line is closed for "essential maintenance" this weekend. So
>> I decided to take a walk from CQ up to Central to see what they were doing.
>>
>> Three guys were at the terminus doing some adjustments to the points.
>>
>> South of Town Hall, workmen were busy with the new paving works, and
>> installing even more ugly poles at the intersections; these seem to be for
>> new pedestrian lights (why do they need more lights when pedestrians ignore
>> them anyway?).
>>
>> At Hay St, a group was engaged with welding at the H crossing.
>>
>> As compensation for the inconvenience, the Opal readers were switched off
>> along both lines.
>>
>> Brian, on the L1.5 today.
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