Sydney’s traffic control room has been in operation for decades. I don’t know if Melbourne’s traffic lights are monitored but the name of the game down there seems to never disrupt road traffic to help trams. In fact I believe they have spent 80 years perfecting the art of obstructing trams as much as possible. That is in normal circumstances as well as during deviations like this.

Thomas Coates The train videos are taken by a train driver. Obviously nobody is in the cab with him to get in the way. On the trams, I have a suction cup to hold the camera on the glass screen behind the driver. On a few occasions a passenger has accidentally bumped the camera and I have straightened it quickly. Nobody has intentionally interfered with the camera.

Bob Rogers. At the time of that video, the virus was news overseas but was not yet affecting Australia. The traffic light programmers have had 80 years experience at delaying Melbourne trams as best they can and certainly were going to make no exceptions for this diversion. It is surprising that the overhead power did not go off more often but most of the trams generally were just creeping along so not using much electricity, although air-conditioners were going.

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What is unclear about that? The video was recorded early in the year when Route 30 existed. It is gone now and Rt 12 provides a second Latrobe St service instead.

tressteleg1 ah... It should be "abolished". Not Ablished 🤣 which is what tripped me

@@YuvrajHanspal just an O missing

malcolmone1 Exactly. Quite disgraceful quality in fact.

Jasper de Laat You are just jealous because you don’t have 15 tram routes to jam into any one street, ha ha 😀

@@tressteleg1 I wish my town would even have one bus route 😂

Oh Dear. Where are you?

@@tressteleg1Boxtel, the Netherlands. Given we have a train service to the surrounding three major cities, they think we don't need anything else.

Ah yes, Google Earth found it for me. I thought that the Netherlands was cross-crossed by public transport everywhere, but not so that far east, it seems, but of course the train would be handy to get anywhere fast.

Peter Leidgen Yes, Latrobe St is jammed. Victorian people are very limited in what they can now do. There are small Covid clusters in New South Wales in different places so Queensland has shut its borders entirely against anyone from the southern states. There is no Covid out in the population in Queensland, and a few other states are the same. We are supposed to use social distancing but otherwise life is normal without fear.

@@tressteleg1 Thanks for the info👍 I only heared about a Shutdown in a few suburbs of Melbourne and that other states have closed there borders. In germany the situation is OK. In some other parts of Europe like Spain Turkey and eastern Europe it seems to be not very good.

Peter Leidgen Your news is old regarding Victoria. A week or two ago, apart from if you are going to work you must not travel more than 5 km from your house. Nearly all the shops are closed except supermarkets, chemists shops, petrol stations, and a few things like that and everybody must be in their house no later than 8 pm. And the school children must do their lessons at home. It’s not quite clear what the situation is in Europe but it does seem as though they don’t care if only small numbers get sick every day. And thanks for your earlier wishes to me but I think all Queenslanders can feel perfectly safe even if some do worry for nothing.

😊. I watched your North Melbourne and it also showed good imagination 👍

tressteleg1 thanks I’m slowing down on them now because no more ready yet

Victorian Transport Videos My target is less ambitious - just one new video each week but of course they are longer. Sometimes I am ready for several weeks in advance, but some are last-minute rushes. Something you may care to consider is that some people might prefer to hear the noises of the trains so you could have music when they are reading your texts and hear the trains when they go past. Just something to think about.

tressteleg1 there is sound on the Videos is that what you mean?

Victorian Transport Videos Ouch! A big mistake by me. Maybe I was thinking of another video but North Melbourne is perfectly fine. Sorry. I will double check in the future 😢