It sounds like the design review took unnecessarily long. They have those in Europe too. Public feedback explains why hard wooden or plastic seats are popular there - people associate fabric with dirt. They'd rather a hard seat than not knowing what nasty things are breeding in the fabric beneath you!
How are there so many of the public mad keen to ride a mere new tram? Look at the crowd boarding near the end of this video. The enthusiasts among them stand out like a sore thumb, as they do here!
Good to see that they're keeping the driver's bar fridge going, an innovation in the 15T.
The first two out on the run. The sound of those motors should become familiar on Melbourne streets no doubt.
On the Barrandov line.
Tony P
(who senses that Prague and Melbourne have closed in to a very similar design solution for a legacy system)
On Saturday, 21 June 2025 at 11:10:20 UTC+10 Mal Rowe wrote:
On 20/06/2025 21:41, 'TP' via TramsDownUnder wrote:
> In Prague, the contract was awarded in November 2023, more than a year
> and a half later. Production started in June 2024, about six months
> later, and the first couple of trams arrived in Prague in April and
> May 2025, starting homologation trials soon after. The first tram has
> reached the stage where it can carry revenue service passengers.
> Meanwhile we still wait for the G class. Is this some special
> treatment for Australia? I recall that the CAF trams for Sydney took
> ages to arrive too.
>
Hi Tony,
The simple answer is that I don't know, but what I do know is that after
the contract was awarded in Victoria there was an extensive design
review program involving hundreds of people (including me) visiting the
mock-up and giving feedback. Others included people with various access
issues including a friend who uses crutches.
I don't know what changes were made after that process - there is no
obvious changes in recent renders of the tram appearance.
After the issues with buying 'off the shelf' C and D class trams
Victoria is rightly careful.
Mal Rowe - looking forward to a ride and hoping that I find the G as
good as the B has been
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