Re: My ride on a Citadis

--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "Swash" <swash@b...> wrote:

Last Thursday I had the opportunity to ride on a Citadis tram from

the City (Melbourne) to Richmond. Maybe a fifteen minute trip. I
had previously only travelled on one for one stop in the city. Here
is my opinion......

Ride: seemed ok, side to side a bit, but it was good track and it

was not too bad

Try bad/average track and you will really feel the side to side
movement!

But I had to use quite a bit of mental energy to work all this
out. And I am an experienced trammie. For a casual user, it is
far from user friendly. Why they cannot have a next stop indicator
near the driver and cords and buttons on staunchions within the
tram I do not know. The Citadis tram may be much better for
disabled people and look very good, but for me I think the B class
tram is much better, and that is around a fifteen year old design.

Wonder what the Combino will be like.

It wouldn't have hurt to put stop buttons on every vertical pole in
the entire tram, there's not that many of them. With the combino,
you will find even more people standing as there are less seats.
Ride quality seems to be more solid though.

Johann




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