Re: Re: Greetings from Melbourne
Greg King
Monday, September 10, 2001 10:16 AM
Hi Malcom,
Several reasons firstly, it should be remembered that every system that
operates them is a new system with very little street operation, whilst ours
is predominantly street operation.
The driver sits to low and to far back, the corner pillars of the windscreen
are to thick creating large blind spots in the line of site. We have a large
vandalism problem here, one part of that is, these cretins ride on the back
bumper and scratch or scrawl all over the driver's windscreen (windsheild to
those of you in the US), now they can do it by just standing next to the
tram, the windscreen wiper is also vulnarable. The gong is recorded (!!) and
weak, there are no mirrors on the car, instead CCTV is used, at night, a car
coming up behind, blinds the camears with their headlights, the cab has
indevidual air con, no other ventilation, no vent window or anything else.
If the previous driver is a smoker, has BO or just farts (sorry), you wear
it. The dead man control is a spring loaded lever under the palm of the hand
which has to be held down for 10 seconds and released for three, all day,
whilst braking and accelerating with the same control in heavy traffic, the
spring is very hard so anyone with arthritis inthe hand will have problems.
I think that's enough for now.
Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm Miles" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Greetings from Melbourne
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Several reasons firstly, it should be remembered that every system that
operates them is a new system with very little street operation, whilst ours
is predominantly street operation.
The driver sits to low and to far back, the corner pillars of the windscreen
are to thick creating large blind spots in the line of site. We have a large
vandalism problem here, one part of that is, these cretins ride on the back
bumper and scratch or scrawl all over the driver's windscreen (windsheild to
those of you in the US), now they can do it by just standing next to the
tram, the windscreen wiper is also vulnarable. The gong is recorded (!!) and
weak, there are no mirrors on the car, instead CCTV is used, at night, a car
coming up behind, blinds the camears with their headlights, the cab has
indevidual air con, no other ventilation, no vent window or anything else.
If the previous driver is a smoker, has BO or just farts (sorry), you wear
it. The dead man control is a spring loaded lever under the palm of the hand
which has to be held down for 10 seconds and released for three, all day,
whilst braking and accelerating with the same control in heavy traffic, the
spring is very hard so anyone with arthritis inthe hand will have problems.
I think that's enough for now.
Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm Miles" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Greetings from Melbourne
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 16:39:15 +1000, you wrote:They are nice looking cars but, I still don't believe they are suited for
Melbourne's conditions, I hope I'm wrong. I still thing either it's
predessor (the Grenoble car) or the Bombardier car for London, would have
been far more suitable for here, but what do I know, I only have to drive
the things.
Why don't you think the Citadis trams are suited for Melbourne?
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Best wishes,
Malcolm
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