Trams are, with the current stupid design, doomed to become an accessibility nightmare. The vehicles themselves aren't wheelchair accessible and therefore require every stop in Melbourne to be turned into one of the inane traffic-flow-wrecking stops that we have towards Box Hill, at an astronomical cost of around $250,000 per pair of stops, or a fully platformed stop like on the East Burwood extension. If the government doesn't retrofit the current trams to make them accessible, the conversion of stops will cost a fortune and halve traffic capacity of roads on tram routes during peak periods.
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Date: 2006-03-11 10:55 am (UTC)