Do they realise that if they want to keep to the timetable, they need to
use their acceleration/deceleration/line speeds to do this, not intimidate
the passengers at stops who, in my experience, load and unload pretty
quickly generally? Of course it would help if they had more doors on the
trams, so any slowness there is TfNSW's fault. The management also needs to
enforce the speed limits on those curves at Central, or it will all happen
all over again sooner than they want.

The journey time has now slipped back to 39 minutes for the 12.8 km with 21
intermediate stops, hard up against their maximum contracted journey time.
I've probably shown this in the past, but a very similar operational
profile to L1 (part light rail, part on street) is Prague line 17, which
covers 12.856 km of its route, with 21 intermediate stops, in 30 minutes - *9
minutes faster*. The relevant section in this video is from the departure
platform at 1:33 minutes to the 12.856 km point at 31:42 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YZ6RHrp7Ig

No clanging of bells at passengers to hurry them along, all seems very
relaxed. What the hell do they do to fill out all that extra time on IWLR?

For tram buffs, this is worth watching through to the end where you'll see
the beautiful new bridge across the Vltava at Troja (42 minutes) and the
effortless climb of the 8% gradient up to the Kobylisy plateau (43:45
minutes), including a standing start from a stop halfway up. This is a
modern 30 metre tram, not even an old sprightly Tatra.

Tony P

On Friday, 25 November 2022 at 18:24:52 UTC+11bblun...@... wrote:

> Went for a "test run" over the new work this afternoon. A CAF set squealed

> its way into Central about 16:00, picked up a load of pax and headed back

> down the ramp. A rather impatient driver, constantly ringing the bell as

> passengers attempted to board.

>

> There was TR 05 sign at the curve, but the driver ground through at about

> 11-12 on his speedo.

>

> I got off at Capitol Square to catch the L3, again he is madly ringing the

> bell almost as soon as the doors opened. Did he really imagine this would

> speed passengers up?

>

> Brian

>

> Photo of the curve yesterday afternoon, as the site was being cleaned up.

>