Re: Tram services disrupted

No it was a police car parked across the tracks in the middle of the
intersection. That was my point. The Collins and Spring Street trams
could not have gone through. Also, the protesters would have blocked
the City Circle trams in Spring Street. It would be interesting to
know what fines Yarra Trams have to pay because of these disruptions.
Paul in Melbourne
--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "IS Edit" <bobmurphy2@c...> wrote:

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
----- Original Message -----
From: pn1.rm
To: TramsDownUnder@y...
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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