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  JP (2009-03-05 22:53:24)

  It seems a little unreasonable for me to spend so much money in converting 30-year old tramways into partly low floor vehicles - are they going to use if for next 20 years?

   
• dvigar (195.93.21.*) (2009-03-05 23:07:30)

  I suppose this is a short-term solution until Skodas or other LF cars become available at a price they can afford. Even Prague has been doing it

   
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  JP (2009-03-06 10:16:36)

  Do you know if the electric part was modified?

   
• dvigar (195.93.21.*) (2009-03-06 17:40:14)

  I believe so - chopper control etc.

   
• straphan (2009-03-06 20:38:16)

  @JP: then it's pointless to modernise all 105N's? At least T3/T4s can get a low-floor section added in. This car has got a brand new chassis, a brand new body, modified electrics - pretty much only the bogies remain the same. It'll still be in decent condition in 20 years, and IT IS low-floor. If only the Konstal crap we are forced to endure in Poland could be so versatile and malleable...

   
• dvigar (2009-03-06 20:55:30)

  Konstals ARE very malleable - look how easily they bend them in Warszawa

   
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  JP (2009-03-06 21:41:15)

  These all trams should be scrapped and replaced - there is no point in spending so much money on weared constructions, when you are able to buy new trams, I think.

   
• straphan (2009-03-09 00:22:47)

  @dvigar - exactly my point :P @JP: and pray tell, why on earth spend that money on buying perhaps ten new Skodas, when you can get twenty low-floor tatras for that money? These trams are almost new - pretty much as new as - say - a Leoliner which would have a good shot at replacing them in a tender. Plus their body is far from weird - their numbers now run in their hundreds

   

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