Yes, but per articulation, the front and end cars of the E Class both have two doors each in them, ensuring offloading / boarding is reasonable. The middle car of the E Class admittedly could be better. Sydney's CAF only has one door per articulation, worse yet, middle car has no doors. I really don't like arriving at Central on a CAF and you wait a century to get off the overcrowded tram because there's only one door in the car you're in, ensuring offloading will move at snails pace. It is absolutely atrocious design. It's just like the front and end cars of the CAF have extremely narrow aisles, it makes the same mistake as a Combino tram.tonyp wrote:The E class only has five doors. You can order the CAF with six. The E class also has very narrow aisles that discourage circulation. There are really only two major standee areas, one at each end. In the CAFs you can get a better distribution of standees. The Flexity is a different model. The Gold Coast trams are Flexitys and they have a much better door and internal circulation arrangement. Though they only have fixed bogies, a specification that is the cause of wheel and track wear on the curving IWLR. A Skoda 15T would be the best choice that ticks all the boxes - swiveling bogies, six evenly-distributed double doors and heaps of circulation space.Jurassic_Joke wrote:If we order more trams to address the overcrowding issue, I sincerely hope we move away from the CAF’s because they're pretty terrible in their current Sydney spec incarnation.
Just order something with more doors - like Melbournes E Class Flexity. That’s a tram I could be proud of (if Melbourne was my home city)
I'm really looking forward to when these new Citadis X05 trams start, I'm a fan of the internal layout, looks well designed for good passenger flow.
