Re: Bob Harvey rolls out tram-train vision for WestAuckland

I knew that Siemens was working on a hybrid electric and diesel Combino
tram, but was no aware that Alstom also had that in mind. The picture
of course is of a Citadis.

"Cawood, David" wrote:

Harvey rolls out tram-train vision for West Auckland

NZ Herald 21.05.2002
By BERNARD ORSMAN
Waitakere Mayor Bob Harvey wants to buy a $110 million train-tram
combo,
call it the West Coast Express and start it rolling with a three-month
free
trial, and coffee and hamburger vouchers.
The entrepreneurial mayor has a vision of commuters riding a
tram-train that
leaves the main rail track and travels down a track laid in the road
to such
places as the Westgate shopping centre and New Lynn.
The bullet-shaped trains, with surf waves painted down the side, would
leave
Henderson for the city at 10-minute intervals during peak hours.
Mr Harvey is countering plans by the Government's Auckland transport
advocate, Grant Kirby, for second-hand trains and the Auckland
Regional
Council for new multiple diesel units.
After visiting train manufacturers in Australia this month, Mr Harvey
last
week received a formal response from the international energy and
transport
company Alstom to deliver 17 diesel-powered tram-trains in 2005 for
about
$110 million.

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