boronia wrote:The trams have a fully sealed compartment for the driver, but this seems to be deemed insufficient enough to warrant the front doors not being opened.
The end doors are driver-only in trams that don't have a separate door for the driver's cab. The drivers regularly have to leave the cab to change ends.
Transdev Melbourne has adopted rear door-boarding (twitter feed):
I was at Maroubra Junction this afternoon; when a bus pulled up, the dozen or so people, who had been somewhat "social distancing" around the stop while waiting, all tried to barge in the front door together.
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Surprising that governments haven't yet got contracted bus operators to measure 1.5 metres between seats witch would probably mean one person every 3rd or 4th seat witch would restrict the capacity of a 50 seat bus to 10 or 15 seats
boronia wrote:I was at Maroubra Junction this afternoon; when a bus pulled up, the dozen or so people, who had been somewhat "social distancing" around the stop while waiting, all tried to barge in the front door together.
Sneezing and coughing over the driver as they passed no doubt.
Campbelltown busboy wrote:Surprising that governments haven't yet got contracted bus operators to measure 1.5 metres between seats witch would probably mean one person every 3rd or 4th seat witch would restrict the capacity of a 50 seat bus to 10 or 15 seats
We're meeting those requirements up my way. One passenger for every 44 seats.
boronia wrote:I was at Maroubra Junction this afternoon; when a bus pulled up, the dozen or so people, who had been somewhat "social distancing" around the stop while waiting, all tried to barge in the front door together.
Sneezing and coughing over the driver as they passed no doubt.
Campbelltown busboy wrote:Surprising that governments haven't yet got contracted bus operators to measure 1.5 metres between seats witch would probably mean one person every 3rd or 4th seat witch would restrict the capacity of a 50 seat bus to 10 or 15 seats
If you had one person per double seat, and alternated between aisle and window seats, you might get close to 1.5 spacing?
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That was from back in March. An outcome of that is that Detroit adopted rear door entry and the driver was cordoned off. TfNSW, aided and abetted by RTBU and TWU, hasn't been so merciful to drivers.
How do governments successfully enforce social distancing measures on public transport without decreasing overall peak hour capacity on all busses trains ferries and tram/light rail when the economy reopens and more people head back to work
Trains are the big problem. Perhaps TfNSW could look at hiring in some of the hundreds of charter buses/coaches which are languishing unused around Sydney to provide point to point express services along the rail network.
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