TheWaluigiKing
Trainz Ninja
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/mo...r-traffic-delays/story-fn7x8me2-1226268105065
there's going to a lot of angry people!
there's going to a lot of angry people!
Derailed tram causes peak-hour traffic delays
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korikovaVL80
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Similar thing happened in Kazan with an old Tatra tram, but that happens a lot because of bad maintenance, the tracks are in a very bad condition so trolleybus is better.
Tram derailments doesn't happen that often in the west btw, so strange it happened in Australia...
Tram derailments doesn't happen that often in the west btw, so strange it happened in Australia...
Yes, tramways in the West are well maintained. Here in Glkasgow we once had a very extensive system and the only known incident of a tram jumping the track was away back at the start of the 20th century. The double decker was full to the gunnels and in the pitch dark beside Queen's Park due to no street lights then and the driver hadn't realise he was on the sharp bend into the main road on the southside (Victoria Rd) and the car jumped the track. Fascinatingly the driver was only 16 but the statutory Board of investigation cleared him as a properly trained and efficient driver. Somehow I feel that if people were to see a 16-year old tram driver today they might just be a little nervous?....!
korikovaVL80
Banned
Well that reminds me about my friend Martina, she started driving a metro train when she were 15 in Minsk, Belarus. It can happen she's the youngest driver in the whole world, who knows. Since Belarus is pretty different than Russia, and very different from the west. But she haven't done any big accident, and will never do.
That was a human error, it doesn't have anything to do with age, on my own I was 20 when I started driving commuter trains in Kazan, and it all goes excellent. I wouldn't blame a drivers age, but the factor which caused the accident. If you want to ride the metro with a young driver, you can visit Minsk. She's 16 right now, and not like a kid at all
The safety in the west is excellent, and I guess it's because people wouldn't travel if it wasn't safe. Here, the ministry of transport doesn't care about the tram tracks getting rusty... So when you take the tram, it's like taking a roller coaster. Because the tram is travelling so strange that the passenger seat always jump from side to side, pretty funny experiece for tourists here.
Regular tram in Kazan, but there are newer of course.