Do they have a long-term existence in NSW or are new orders fading out? They're less flexible (so to speak). STA's L113TRBs are at Willoughby and Port Botany, because the Epping Rd and Anzac Pde/Bunnerong Rd corridors have fewer nasty corners. I assume the Transit Systems TRBs at Kingsgrove are onl...

jpp42 wrote:It would be okay if one platform was for light rail arrivals and bus departures and the other for light rail departures and bus arrivals

Which is what will happen here.

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why did the W19 have those restrictions Each operator's revenue came directly from fares. If another operator encroached on your territory, they were stealing money from you. With current metro contracts, fares all go to TfNSW, who pay pay operators for running services. It no longer matters (in a ...

Port Botany seems to be following the usual pattern here - let the numbers build up way over requirements, then once the new buses have well and truly proved themselves, withdraw large numbers of old buses very quickly. Makes a lot of sense if you have the space.

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Doesn't look like it, from the backs of seats (and pole attachments) immediately in front of the camera position.

edit: also, they show in the fleet lists as K310 chassis

Not really. Opposition was mainly from east of the motorway.

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There are maintenance and longevity advantages to a rigid pavement instead of a flexible one. (Look at all the old concrete slab roads getting major rehab and diamond grinding - some of them would be 8 *decades* or so old. As an extreme comparison, you have the Moore Park stretch of Anzac Pde - ever...

London's got that (albeit a bit longer), so why shouldn't we?

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Leichhardt's the main depot - maybe they want to ensure the maintenance staff there remain familiar with them?

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The Orana-bodied Scanias are the oldest three models in the both the STA and TSW (TS R6) fleets, but STA has been pretty keen to also get rid of the O405NH (the oldest gas-powered Merc). At the end of June, immediately before R6 was transferred, the approximate percentages of these four models withd...

boronia wrote:retailers often add "transaction costs" to the final price

I obviously don't get out much.

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Andrew Constance McConstanceFace is probably hoping everyone will forget by the time the election hoves into view.

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I refuse to use EFTPOS due to the transaction costs incurred. Transaction costs? To you? :o Gee, time to shop around for another bank/CU. So I think I will just refuse to travel with these airlines... Which are charging you how much for the actual ticket? (Plus their transaction fees in at least so...

but also that the south coast is getting them last Of course - I would have thought the sensible rollout pattern was to do CCN (the longest route) first, displacing H sets *which can be used to build up SCO services*, then BMT second to retire V sets, then SCO third to push the H sets into Sydney. ...

I can see the need to have unique numbers on a centralised state system, for parents moving into an area if nothing else, but shorter numbers for the benefit of the day-to-day users (ie young kids) would be useful. Perhaps something like (geographic) phone numbers would work, with an equivalent to t...

Still working out what to do with the confidential paperwork that you traditionally tear up and put with the sloppy food waste to discourage those will ill-intent from snooping on you. Might have to buy a shredder. Food courts generate kind-of-sloppy food waste, and accumulate much of it in their b...

Does any body know if those 15 cent bags are recyclable??? :?: :?: :?: They'd be made of recyclable *material*, but because they're soft plastic they're not recyclable in kerbside collection. (All plastic bags in kerbside collection are by definition rubbish, and anything *in* them therefore *becom...

The main use I'll have problems with is the bag in the bathroom, which ends up with the vacuum cleaner contents. (Oh, and for keeping random stuff dry(ish) in wet weather.) For the kitchen, I'll simply switch to bread bags. The woven PP bags fold down neatly into a backpack, so I do beyond-walking-d...

Also consider a fully low floor vehicle is likely to result in greater glass area which is greater weight and cost, a taller saloon for the full length of the vehicle means a greater ac load and fuel cost? Only if they leave the seats up at the same height, and if existing floor and seats are both ...

Artillery road? Somebody carrying on the (supposed) work of Haussmann?

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Additionally, the use of the "combo" artics with a high level floor from mid way through the front section to the back does result in a higher seating capacity and less complex mechanicals (turntable, rear axle transmission and engine layout etc) than the full low floor artics which I think are use...

and I know in detail of two cases also where the emergency door rebound function did not work. At all. In one of those cases it was as a direct result of an unauthorised, unsupervised, centre door boarding. No, the entrapment might have been the result of "unauthorised, unsupervised, centre door bo...

Those 30 O305G artics had the drive axle in the trailer.
Canberra's first artics had a central drive axle.

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matthewg wrote:Possibly only to update their server configuration to not use older and now insecure variants of TLS/SSL encryption.

Even in Windows 10, IE is configured to use TLS 1.0 and 1.1 as well as 1.2. Thanks for reminding me to go into Internet Options and kill 1.0 and 1.1, just in case.

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tonyp wrote:would be simply churlish and unprofessional.

And therefore totally in character for TfNSW.

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