Only 150,000 in the guts of Grenoble, 600,000+ in the greater area, Max but on the timetable for trams, between 7AM and 7 PM, trams run every 3 or
4 minutes. Outside of that in early mornings and late night it seems about every 10 -15 minutes which poos on any area of Melbourne I have lived. St
Kilda Road may be the exception of course. You can buy tickets one way for E1.50 or all day for E4. People use it daily, hourly. There is a commitment
to public transport. Ditto in Dijon and Bordeaux and soon in Tours.
Bloody road tunnels. We can't even get a bus service between St Andrews and Hurstbridge station. The had a feasibility study which took two years
which just finished and concluded no bananas.
Hoo roo,
Bill
On Thu, May 16th, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ah Bill, there is an epic to be written about public transport in
> Melbourne.
>
> However, it depends where you stand for comparisons.
>
> Grenoble, half a million or so? and you were at the hub.
>
> Melbourne, much bigger, and with suburban trains many and busy,
> has trams passing me on St Kilda Rd so many that I miss two or three as I
> walk to the stop.
>
> While you are away politicians have been promising billions for road
> tunnels, billions better spent on the trains…
>
> Power of the motor car lobby, I guess, and votes in certain electorates.
>
> Epic? no, tragicomedy.
>
> M in melb
>
> On 16/05/2013, at 12:32 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
>
> > Max, this seems to be the latest of your 'it's not dark yet/but it's
> getting there' poems, to quote latter period Dylan. I share Andrew's
> shiver. Fluttering
> > and testing so tentatively and so tram-some and inner Melbourne.
> >
> > I just passed the Terminus Hotel here in Grenoble and triple length
> trams pass me on the streets every three or four minutes, showing up
> Melbourne's
> > commitment to public transport.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Bill
>
>
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