[plug] all your XXX belong to us (was: valentine)

[Bernd Felsche]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:30:19PM +0800, Garry wrote:
> > Maybe the buses were travelling at excessive speed when carrying
> > unrestrained and standing pax... such vehicles in Germany are
> > limited to 80kmh and more often than not restricted to speed zones
> > of 70kmh or less anyway. It's also worth noting that many Transperth
> > buses *die* on the side of the freeway because they were never
> > intended for extended runs at 100kmh.

> As a passenger, you are very very safe.. Unless some loser on the
> train takes to you I guess.. Maybe I was lucky, never happened to
> me.

Or the platform...

> The older buses are speed limited to 85km/h, but this varies from
> 80-~86 with mechanical tolerance, the newer buses (a/c with no
> openable windows) are 90km/h, but some of them go close to 100.
> It's policy (at Southern Transit at least) to only use the newer
> type on the Freeway for the speed and reliability factors. My
> neighbour, until I moved in November, is a driver.

> Linux link? Tenuous.. I used to travel by bus and train to go to
> the Northbridge meetings for PLUG..  8^)==

I suppose you'll want the railway line down to Collie now. :-)

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