IF the GPT development had gone ahead, large trucks would doubtless have been travelling along Hunter Street - at up to 60km/h - to supply the centre. Few would suggest that that would be dangerous. How, then, would a train travelling at 15km/h or 20km/h on open lines be dangerous?
Trams travelled on Hunter Street at higher speeds than that for many decades without problems. I don't know if Jeff Corbett's friend John MacKenzie ("Just slow the trains" Herald 30/8) is the first to suggest this plan but the idea has been around for a long time. It's at least 15 years since I heard of it. I don't understand why those in power can't see that it satisfies both sides of the debate. The line stays and the CBD is opened to the Foreshore. And it's cheap.
Andrew Smith
Birmingham Gardens
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