Re: Tram services disrupted

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Wednesday, May 15, 2002 4:13 AM

Paul,

It's been my experience that the Victoria Police are so incompetent at directing traffic that they are quite sufficient to create their own traffic jams. Look for a traffic jam and you'll find a cop or a bunch of them. The only time I ever saw a Victoria cop doing it with style was at the corner of Flinders and Queen Street when I was at my bus terminus. He was elegant. You could tell what he wanted you to do a block away. I walked over to him and said, "You must be a wog. You're showing too much style, here". He started laughing and said, "Italian, actually". He was good.

Did the cop involved with the motorcyclists have to be parked across the tracks?

Did he or the motorcyclists impede the progress of public transport?

I would have written down the number of his car and protested about him blocking public transport, myself.

If that cop had been on a bike himself, he probably could have been a lot less disruptive to trams when he parked to direct traffic.

Bob Murphy

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From: pn1.rm

To: [email protected]

Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 1:04 PM

Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Tram services disrupted

I noticed yesterday afternoon there were brief disruptions to the tram services in the city area because of a protest "invasion" by motor cycle riders. At one stage I saw a police car parked across the tram tracks at the Spring and Collins Streets intersection while an officer "directed the traffic" [of motorcyclists]. The protesters effectively halted tram services for a time. Does any other city in the world allow itself to be disrupted in this way? Decent law abiding people [such as those that contribute to this list] are prevented from going about their business by these disruptions. I gather marches and protests are quite common at the weekend; not that I go into town much on Saturdays and Sundays. And who pays the fines for the tram operators not being able to provide their advertised services in these cases? Paul in Melbourne.

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