Sydney doesn't have a problem with the cost of replacement buses. We are told to "catch a train" or walk".
We had a full weekend closure last weekend on the L2/L3. They provided "replacement buses", which equated to one 60 pax capacity bus every 12 minutes replacing one 400 capacity tram every 10 minutes. On my travels on Sunday I noticed a crew playing with the points at Kensington Junction, and a mobile welding team working on the curves from Chalmers St into Eddy Ave,

On Thursday, 23 May 2024 at 10:52:39 am AEST, Tony Galloway arg@...> wrote:

The Citytransportinfo website said the cost, based on Bordeaux’s experience, was three times the cost of overhead to install, and fifty times the testing and maintenance cost. Add to that the cost of tram replacement buses when they were sorting the inevitable teething problems.

They called it the “Amazingly Pricey System”.

I wonder how Rio’s going with 100% APS?

Rio de Janeiro was a turnkey project rolled out for the Olympics, with Alstom using it as an APS promotion.

Maybe they should have looked the gift horse in the mouth...

APS was developed for Bordeaux because they were nostalgic for their closed earlier conduit powered tramway, and the slot-based conduit power supply they wanted was considered obsolete and unsafe by modern standards, so Alstom came up with this solution in search of a problem.

Tony

> On 23 May 2024, at 09:20, Greg Sutherland gregsutherland@...> wrote:

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> ABC radio 702 is reporting no trams operating between Town Hall and Circular Quay due to power supply problems.

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> Looks like another problem on the APS wireless electricity supply system.  We, the taxpayers, paid a lot of dollars for the APS which, just iike overseas is proving to be unreliable and high maintenance cost.

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