- TheForkOfDamocles ( @theforkofdamocles@beehaw.org ) English12•1 year ago
So by “trackless tram” they mean long bus?
- ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻ ( @unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ) English8•1 year ago
The technical term is “Bendy Bendy Bus”
I remember watching a video during lockdown here and melb of a dudes reaction to a news report about these ‘trackless trams’ and to this day it still sticks in my head
“Haven’t seen the family in months, can’t go to the pub, but FUCK I CANT WAIT TO GO CATCH SOME BUSES”
Also, this is my first post from Boost, so uhh, go easy on me!
- nickiam2 ( @nickiam2@aussie.zone ) 3•1 year ago
Why not just spend that little bit extra and build either a BRT (which is what this actually is) with signal priority, or a real tram line with overhead wires and rails and stuff?
Because they want to build something which sounds cool and exciting whilst not actually helping much
- Nath ( @Nath@aussie.zone ) 1•1 year ago
A bus holds 50 people, or 70 super uncomfortably. A tram carries 3-4 times that number. As someone who started sceptical of trams when moving to Melbourne and became an avid convert, I’m cautiously optimistic.
I wish we still had our tram network. If these can fill that niche without all the support infrastructure of a real light rail implementation, I’m in.