Now you're talking Mal! Of course the logic with the G class is that the
rails are already there, so naturally you'd use trams.

The double artic buses are intended to bypass the need to build
infrastructure for them. That's in Europe of course. In Australia, under
the NHVR regs, buses longer than 18 metres aren't allowed on public roads
(except under a temporary exemption). So the Brisbane double artics are
allowed because they're to run on a private ROW - which is, of course,
INFRASTRUCTURE! Luckily for them, that infrastructure already exists this
time around. If anybody wants to run double artics elsewhere in the future,
they will need to build private off-road ROWs for them.

In other words, they might as well build a tramway (which has the
additional advantage of expandable capacity if needed in the future).

Tony P

On Friday 29 March 2024 at 14:00:45 UTC+11 Mal Rowe wrote:

> On 29/03/2024 13:23, TP wrote:

> > None of these buses has the potential capacity of a tram - up to about

> > 190 in Europe, in Australia with our regs no more than 170 passengers.

> >

> Exactly the same as a Melbourne L class !

>

> See attached plan.

>

> Mal Rowe - whose tongue is making his cheek bulge a bit

>