Comments on: Tram Woes and Myki http://melbourne.metblogs.com/2009/04/17/tram-woes-and-myki/ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:48:26 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: danielbowen http://melbourne.metblogs.com/2009/04/17/tram-woes-and-myki/comment-page-1/#comment-3538 danielbowen Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:54:54 +0000 http://melbourne.metblogs.com/?p=2395#comment-3538 Yes you're right about the repairs being paid for by Siemens, so the cost isn't important to taxpayers. The main point about them perhaps not being the right model of tram for Melbourne was more about the length of routes (many an hour or more long, much longer than European tram routes, with longer trips typical) and the small number of seats in these trams -- less seats than any other type of tram in use in the last few decades -- and they're about to lose even more of them. Yes you’re right about the repairs being paid for by Siemens, so the cost isn’t important to taxpayers.

The main point about them perhaps not being the right model of tram for Melbourne was more about the length of routes (many an hour or more long, much longer than European tram routes, with longer trips typical) and the small number of seats in these trams — less seats than any other type of tram in use in the last few decades — and they’re about to lose even more of them.

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