Saturday, July 19, 2008

Novosibirsk 9
Russian road traffic law requires that any vehicles involved in an accident must not be moved until the police have arrived and inspected the scene and taken various measurements. This results in horrendous congestion.
1. Note the the current collector has not been removed from the live overhead wire.
2. It looked as though the tram driver had misjudged the speed and outswing of the lorry.
3. When the police had completed their assessment the tram behind was coupled to the damaged car. The young lady with her back to the camera was the driver of the second tramcar.
4. She then had to push the tram through the scrum of traffic on a circuitous route back to the depot
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One thing that has not changed since Soviet times is that the vast majority of tram drivers are women and all the conductors I saw were also female. On the other hand bus driving continues to be man's work and anyone can have a go at driving trolleybuses.
Also as in Soviet times trams and trolleybuses have common management, buses and metros have completely separate managements.



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