RE: today

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg King [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, 19 December 2001 9:38 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] today

Well, today was hell on wheels at Yarra, I can't remember seeing Melbourne traffic so bad (there was something on at Colonial Stadium as well) the best I could do on the 96 was 9 minutes late and I was behind another car all bloody day and, in the afternoon, in 2049 with the unmodified, suicide brakes that roll on when going from Dynamic to disc, a heart failure at every stop (behind another car), shit of a tram (Peter, give me a W3 or 4 anyday, at least you knew what they were going to do!).

 

Scrubber 11W returned to service for 5 minutes this morning and promptly discraced herself at Port Junction on her way out by derailing, she was later back in service where she did the same at the most strategic corner of Spencer and Collins, I wonder if her driver will have another 6 months of sitting on his arse in the crew room! I believe we had a standard car come off somewhere too, also had a truck break down in High street on the 86 and grind that to a hault, Chalk one up to the Gremlins!!

 

On a happier note, "Gold Rush" tram returned to service as a standard City Circle car in the beautifull Burgandy and Cream colours (don't care what you say, that is a lovely colour scheme, better than both the old Met colours, the ludicrous jumble of old Met colours and a bit of blue the M>tram have the gaul to call a colour scheme and our "invisible tram" colour scheme). Several green W's have been returned to the workshops for overhaul/repaint to be ready to receive their rebuilt trucks now the new WH actuators appear to be super successfull.

 

Citadis cars still running in with a couple in basic grey, none (apart from first 4) have ticket machines or validators, makes a joke out of the current fares blitz. Apparently ERG aka Onelink, can't supply machines, of all the incompetent organisations to work with, I pity the like of Muni and Seattle that have gone for this company in a big way, their product sucks! Today we had trams all over the place with ticket machines defective and no one turning up (part of the ERG contract) to fix them, so even the few (very few) honest people who wanted tickets, could'nt!!

 

Anyway, I'm curling up with my pet Cougar (in a bottle) and unwind, day away from the lunatics tomorrow.

 

Greg

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