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By pension issues you mean they refused to allow themselves to be exposed to liabilities of the public pension fund?

If it was a problem with a loop in the road then I’d expect that a) the system was in fall back mode and b) trams wouldn’t be able to automatically call for a signal. Having got the tram in from Middlewood this morning it seems that neither or those are the case. Mind there was no queue at Deepcar either, so maybe the magic fairy has fixed it all.

It’s like musical chairs!

Doubt there’s any snowflakes in this weather.

That happens often enough!

If there’s a problem on the route somewhere what do you expect them to do? I doubt First give their bus drivers a detailed explanation, they just let their drivers know there’s a diversion and which route to use. It certainly isn’t the drivers fault - he’s just following instructions. Honestly, it’s hardly the end of the world! At least you were forewarned and not dumped halfway from home. Some people!

That’s correct. Volker have asked for extra time for that area.

So it isn’t perfect with no trams running? Do you have evidence for that?

Are you sure about that? https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/traffic-and-travel/new-electric-buses-for-leeds-as-transport-bosses-are-handed-2m-funding-boost-1-9579758

Single line working is a railway specific term which refers to vehicles running on the same track in both directions, when usually they would run on two, single direction tracks. This is impossible on road running sections. It’s also impossible on Infirmary Road at the moment as that section is isolated and earthed.

There’s always* been a membership option for Sheffield Theatres. There’s always* been a fee for it. There’s always* been a benefit of advanced bookings Why is it a problem now? *always is a long time, in this case it’s as long as I can remember.

You want them to do single line working on a road section?

You do realise that when they report profit that it’s after all their investment? So the £37million is after their investment in Leeds, which is not entirely funded by them but also by grants from both central and local government.

Which they’ve now put up for sale.

Yes.

There’s one at SYTT.

And not at all relevant to the OP, except for some posters to turn keyboard warriors and armchair judge & jury.

Not all of city road has been done, nor has all of Park Grange Road. Theyre only allowed to close certain sections of road at any one time - that’s why they work up from a certain point.

They’re only allowed to replace certain sections of track, IIRC, it’s around 100m by the council, so that road closures are, in theory reduced. Rail replacement can only be done during the warmer months (due to temperatures required for assessing rail length, the Edilon performing correctly when being laid down etc). Therefore as much as can be replaced is replaced and it’s done on a priority basis. Rail does not wear down equally in all places. It just can’t all be done at once unless the council change their stance on road closures.

They replace the rail as it wears out - what’s daft about that? Volker do work 24 hours.

Clearly it cost more or they would have done it...

Supertram save no money on employment costs - the same number of conductors and drivers are required. If they aren’t working on a tram they will be at various tram stops on the system providing advice to customers. I’ve seen quite a few staff at Hillsborough this weekend.

Again, not true. The Class 399 vehicles are currently maintained by both Stadler contractors (who do the majority of the work) and by Supertram employees. The Siemens fleet is maintained solely by Supertram Maintenance Ltd employees. The PTE provide the funding for rail replacement buses. They were not willing to fund extending the SL1 buses to Hillsborough and Supertram were unwilling to provide the funding themselves.

They are responsible for general maintenance day to day - hence why you see them repairing odd bits of track (e.g after the first Staniforth road crash, and recent track bond replacement work) as well as the maintenance of the fleet. SYPTE are responsible for the major work - I.e rail replacement.

They’re from Scunthorpe.