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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?
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
I believe so - chopper control etc.
@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...
Konstals ARE very malleable - look how easily they bend them in Warszawa
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.
@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