Re: Exessive safety at any cost - including efficient transport?

--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., Bill Bolton <billbolton@c...> wrote:

Like it or not, "big cities" aren't what they were in the 1920/30s

I don't know that Melbourne for example is greatly different now to
what it was in the early 80s when the W2s were withdrawn - which is a
more relevant comparison.

an unadorned W2, or arguably even an adorned one, is not a place for
them for anything other than historic value in an

operating "heritage"

collection used for very particular purposes, not day to day

transit!

And some cold hard facts that justify that opinion are?

The places that continue to use W2s successfully in any role are not
running them in anything like the Melbourne configuration or traffic
density and they mostly have some or all of "air doors, deadman

handle

and interlocks all over the place" etc.

Perhaps they have become brainwashed by the safety mindset too?

Bruce G



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