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

Hi Brent,

I m interested in their power point presentation .. do you mind email
them to me please?

Address is
[email protected]

Cheers
James :-)


--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "Brent Efford" <brent.efford@t...> wrote:

Yes - the Siemens version is called the Avanto. I was given stuff

on it,

including a PowerPoint presentation (2+ Mb - too much to post on

this group,

but I can email it direct if anyone wants it), at the Oct 2000 tram

& Light

Rail Expo, when it was a conceptual design only. I don't know if it

has made

it into production yet. It would be an ideal vehicle for many

applications,

but, I suspect, very expensive.

Cheers,

Brent Efford



-----Original Message-----
From: Herman R. Silbiger [mailto:hsilbiger@i...]
Sent: Tuesday, 21 May 2002 10:04 a.m.
To: TramsDownUnder@y...
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] 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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