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Now that’s a nice tram!
Honestly real jealous of how nice the track is, we got something like this instead. Really over engineered tbh with the overhead cables, poles, and fences.
Still does the same job at the end of the day, but…
What’s this inbetween the rails? You don’t just put gravel there?Also, this seems to be two differen’t usecases. OP’s is in the street (we call that Tram here, often in cities) while yours is beside it (light train).
Edit: right, a gear train, yet another usecase. Answers the question about gravel.
Our city calls them LRTs (light rail trains), the public still calls them “streetcars”, but what ever they are called they are still fundamentally trams IMO.
The one I am showing is a new line in our city that goes both above ground and underground in certain locations. The above ground sections run in the center of the street with stations along the center as well.
This track does indeed have inclines in certain locations, but none of the areas along the route require gears. All of the sections above ground look exactly the same in design, only difference is in some locations we have grass between the tracks, and concrete in others.
Ah right, the screws looked like a gear rack to me.
No wait, it’s not?
OP’s is in the street (we call that Tram here, often in cities) while yours is beside it (light train).
Unless you’re New South Wales government, in which case you call your Sydney trams “light rail” because you don’t want to admit that Melbourne was right all along to keep its trams instead of ripping up all the tracks because “everyone has cars now”. Sydney used to have one of the biggest tram networks in the world until 1961. That was over two decades before I was born but I’m still mad about it.
The Meta AI suggestion “what are operating costs” is bleak. I doubt it suggests that when someone praises a motorway.
“Is this profitable though? What about the shareholders?!?”
lived on the GC and caught the Tram regularly.
there was intense push back against this, but it’s so heavily used. The Green’s also pushed back for alternate reasons, they wanted the heavy rail extended because the next section goes straight through the national park and lots of luggage (from the airport) on this Tram is a pain (and its slow), it should go from Burleigh through ti the train station (giving two links the other up at Helensvale). and heavy rail to Collonongatta IMO
Gold Coast is full of oldies who are overwhelming car brained and super conservative and vote LNP exclusively.
regardless, the stupid LNP have shit canned this and are putting in diesel buses
Send Light Rail South are awesome. Their primary raison d’être is to encourage the government to continue extending the Gold Coast’s light rail all the way to the airport, instead of its current ludicrous plan of making it a two-vehicle trip where you have to swap from a tram to a bus partway.
But I’ve also seen them commenting on an issue 100 km further north near me, where my state MP (and the Shadow Minister for Transport) from the centrist Labor Party keeps criticising the right-wing LNP government for not fast-tracking an expensive car toll tunnel that takes you all the way from the CBD to the edge of the city’s outer boundaries. Send Light Rail South joined in a very loud chorus of people saying it would be much better to put light rail (or at least BRT) along the congested major eight-lane surface road corridor, rather than wasting money and effort on this traffic inducing white elephant.
The community meets on the train and interact with each other?
Never EVER would I have thought that Coolie would appear anywhere
