{"id":9988,"date":"2013-11-20T09:24:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T22:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=9988"},"modified":"2013-11-20T09:24:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T22:24:48","slug":"software-problems-for-missing-e-class-trams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2013\/11\/software-problems-for-missing-e-class-trams\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Problems For Missing E-Class Trams?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/where-have-melbournes-new-eclass-trams-gone-20131120-2xtxi.html\">interesting report<\/a> this morning regarding the status of Melbourne&#8217;s new E-Class trams:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Just over a fortnight into the life of the E-Class trams, they have disappeared from route 96 and from the network.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>As can be expected with anything brand new &#8211; (and in particular something as complicated as a tram) &#8211; there were always going to be teething problems.  As such, I don&#8217;t think it is time to worry just yet.<\/p>\n<p>It is however, a little concerning that problems with basic things like &#8220;jamming doors&#8221; and &#8220;air-conditioning&#8221; are popping up.  Door and air-conditioning systems are not &#8220;brand new&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mr Weber said he was aware of E-class tram problems including the doors of the 6002 jamming, and airconditioning problems on 6001.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes after an incident where a service operated by an E-Class tram was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tonybmorton\/status\/399788761392771072\">terminated due to a &#8220;software problem&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Further:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A Yarra Trams spokesman Simon Murphy confirmed the E-class trams were off the network. He said further information about the reasons for their absence would be available soon.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can&#8217;t they just tell us why?  Seems like an evasive response to me.  This &#8220;software problem&#8221; has ominous overtones.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s wait and see on this one though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read an interesting report this morning regarding the status of Melbourne&#8217;s new E-Class trams: &#8220;Just over a fortnight into the life of the E-Class trams, they have disappeared from route 96 and from the network.&#8221; As can be expected with anything brand new &#8211; (and in particular something as complicated as a tram) &#8211; there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[202,489,598],"class_list":["post-9988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transport","tag-eclass","tag-software","tag-yarratrams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}