Those missing TB's on Sundays
oracletttco
Saturday, May 11, 2002 11:14 PM
--Ken
-When the trolleybus yard at Kilbirnie was sold off to a developer
for an old folks retirement complex,and a huge prison camp structure
erected thereon, the Trolleys all had to go and live in the old
workshops almost next door.
New overhead was erected along over the old tram pits and what was
the old traverser and inside around the Southern end of the building
past the spray paint booth to exit back into the street by another
door halfway down the building.
The buses by then perform two left hand and three right hand turns
from street to street.
Space is at a premium and each bus has a spot in which to park in
order of run in.
The first buses in are the first buses out, and there is no
provision for an overtaking move with all buses "at home" .
There would be so few buses on the road on Sunday,it would not be
worthwhile to have someone come in to move all the remaining buses up
to fill the spaces left vacant inorder to provide spaces for the ones
out on the road.
Perhaps you should ask G. Butler or B.Efford why things were done
this way.
When I visited Wellington in June last year, I came away with the
thought that it was cheap stopgap measure in the light of the
original closure plan.
With the present developments taking place at the moment , perhaps
better flexible storage ideas could be considered.... Lets hope so.
PS...Love to see a Brisbane trolley running in Wellington :-))
Regards
Graeme Bennett
WGB
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-When the trolleybus yard at Kilbirnie was sold off to a developer
for an old folks retirement complex,and a huge prison camp structure
erected thereon, the Trolleys all had to go and live in the old
workshops almost next door.
New overhead was erected along over the old tram pits and what was
the old traverser and inside around the Southern end of the building
past the spray paint booth to exit back into the street by another
door halfway down the building.
The buses by then perform two left hand and three right hand turns
from street to street.
Space is at a premium and each bus has a spot in which to park in
order of run in.
The first buses in are the first buses out, and there is no
provision for an overtaking move with all buses "at home" .
There would be so few buses on the road on Sunday,it would not be
worthwhile to have someone come in to move all the remaining buses up
to fill the spaces left vacant inorder to provide spaces for the ones
out on the road.
Perhaps you should ask G. Butler or B.Efford why things were done
this way.
When I visited Wellington in June last year, I came away with the
thought that it was cheap stopgap measure in the light of the
original closure plan.
With the present developments taking place at the moment , perhaps
better flexible storage ideas could be considered.... Lets hope so.
PS...Love to see a Brisbane trolley running in Wellington :-))
Regards
Graeme Bennett
WGB
Wellington city on the Sunday and no trolley busses were running.Why?
Ken Howard
In sunny Queensland
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