Re: Wellington plans

I just wondered what the story was

Thanks Brent

Andrew
Ka945

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

I was involved promoting the tramway idea in the early 1990s, and

revived

the idea when I stood (unsuccessfully) for the Wellington City

Council last

year. Although the City Circular bus service was touted as a pilot

for the

tramway, any mention of a tramway has been dropped from the plans

for

continued development of the waterfront. Ironically, the General

Manager of

the City Council-owned company developing the waterfront is the

President of

the Wellington Tramway Museum. He admitted to me during my campaign

that the

tramway was simply overlooked during recent planning, but has done

nothing

to see it reintroduced.

The WTM has always been completely passive about the Lambton

Harbour Tramway

proposal since its inception in the early 1980s - probably because

they

thought it would compete with their museum line. In contrast, the
involvement of the Tramway Historical Society in the Christchurch

Tramway

was its main critical success factor.

Cheers,

Brent Efford

-----Original Message-----
From: kaiwhara [mailto:kaiwhara@y...]
Sent: Sunday, 30 June 2002 7:23 p.m.
To: TramsDownUnder@y...
Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Wellington plans


Before the ex-London Double decker busses were put on the City
Circular, there were plans to put in a tourist tramway similar to
Christchurch's setup.

What were they and how far did they go???

Andrew





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