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      <title>mr Trent Nielsen [Signature #1054]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24482828?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[mr Trent Nielsen, Auckland, New Zealand, New Zealand]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 6 Jul 2024 06:08:12 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Adrian Hii [Signature #1053]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Adrian Hii, Maidstone, VIC, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2016 06:01:05 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Anonymous [Signature #1052]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Greenvale, VIC, Australia<p>Dont waste a resource. Build tracks from Airport West to Greenvale, and use these trams to shuttle citizens from Airport West to Tullamarine Gladstone Park West Meadows Greenvale and the ever expanding north by north west.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2015 08:48:34 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Jennifer Brown [Signature #1051]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Jennifer Brown, Northcote, Vic, Australia<p>I agree with the above, thanks</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2015 06:54:25 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr John Walker [Signature #1050]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr John Walker, Kilmore, Victoria, Australia<p>I am an ex MMTB Driver any attempt to get rid of the &quot;W&quot; class is the most STUPID idea<br />
I have heard of they should be re-located to<br />
a line on a permanent basis one suggestion would be the South Melbourne Beach line</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2015 08:46:39 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms Anonymous [Signature #1049]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, logan, Australia, Australia<p>Im from Melbourne these trams are part of our history. Keep them please. I love Melbourne public transport. It beats every other state in the country!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:45:33 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>miss nancy von annenberg [Signature #1048]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss nancy von annenberg, st kilda, Victoria, Australia<p>Please don&#039;t take the trams away from Chapel street, they mean so much to us. protect of history and culture and let us keep that which is so dear to us. I am begging you.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 8 Jul 2014 08:29:46 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Peter Stone [Signature #1047]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Peter Stone, DUNDAS, NSW, Australia<p>The W Class tram is a massive Icon of melbourne and more and more should be restored to a full servicing level so that they can be used just like any other tram. Melbourne has a gigantic shortage of capacity on its network and so many trams sitting around. With some modifications, this would be a fantastically fast and cheaper way so see capacity restored to the network. A mechanically Modified W is better than no W&#039;s at all, and a smaller tram is better than no extra trams at all.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:36:18 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr ross buchanan [Signature #1046]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr ross buchanan, mildura, victoria, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 7 Jan 2014 07:34:38 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Anonymous [Signature #1045]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Oakleigh, Melbourne, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 07:15:46 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Jill Banks [Signature #1044]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Jill Banks, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2013 03:05:24 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Eric Wilson [Signature #1043]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Eric Wilson, Spotswood, Victoria, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 08:22:40 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>James Treffry [Signature #1042]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[James Treffry, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2013 01:28:24 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Elsa Galbally [Signature #1041]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Elsa Galbally, St&#039; Kilda, Victoria, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2013 04:42:10 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Matt Kinsey [Signature #1040]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Matt Kinsey, West preston, Victoria, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2013 05:53:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>MS Rachel Negus [Signature #1039]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MS Rachel Negus, Ringwood, VIC, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:17:33 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Edwin Yong [Signature #1038]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Edwin Yong, Maroubra, NSW, Australia<p>When I travel to Melbourne, catching a W-Class on the City Circle or on Routes 30/78/79 is one of the things I look forward to.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 01:27:59 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #1037]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Reservoir, VIC, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 01:26:48 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #1036]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Reservoir, VIC, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 01:26:21 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>M Peter Stephenson [Signature #1035]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[M Peter Stephenson, Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia<p>Must keep the W Class trams - I remember driving them in the &#039;70&#039;s....so much fun!!!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:19:10 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Jude Colman [Signature #1034]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Jude Colman, Cremorne, VIC, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:23:51 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Anonymous [Signature #1033]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Heathmont, 3135, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:59:33 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Anonymous [Signature #1032]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Beaconsfield, 3807, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:18:26 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr john goodall [Signature #1031]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr john goodall, Brisbane, QLD, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:18:15 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Alex de Greenlaw [Signature #1030]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Alex de Greenlaw, Sydney, NSW, Australia<p>I think the W Class trams are an important link with our past that should retained.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:05:21 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Shirin Sethna [Signature #1029]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Shirin Sethna, Armadale, Victoria, Australia<p>These trams are cultural and historical. Please don&#039;t scrap them!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:34:26 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Susie GAMBLE [Signature #1028]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Susie GAMBLE, MANDSFIELD., Victoria, Australia<p>...my brother (Peter Gamble - driver 449) drove W-Class 1018 for many years...he &amp; I LOVED that tram...and ALL W&#039;s....PLEASE don&#039;t scrap them....as we&#039;ll never see their like again...and that would be SO SAD!.....Melbourne IS W-CLASS!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:55:28 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ma matt stone [Signature #1027]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ma matt stone, cranbourne, victoria, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:37:13 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr David Hutchinson [Signature #1026]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr David Hutchinson, Northcote, Vic, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:55:45 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Cathie George [Signature #1025]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Cathie George, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom<p>This sort of &#039;progress&#039; is very sad. Big mistake!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:54:07 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Bruce Anderson [Signature #1024]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bruce Anderson, Healesville, 3777, Australia<p>An essential and Iconic sight around Olde Melbourne Town!!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:53:23 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Anne Hawker [Signature #1023]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Anne Hawker, Woodend, Victoria, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:53:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Rodney McGregor [Signature #1022]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Rodney McGregor, DOCKLANDS, 3207, Australia<p>This are icons of Melbourne.  If you are serious about boosting tourism in Melbourne, I implore you to keep these trams running - even if only for tourism purposes!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:46:49 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Pamela Mutton [Signature #1021]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Pamela Mutton, Sunshine, Victoria, Australia<p>W Clas Trams create an atmosphere for tourism that the new trams do not have!!!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:43:08 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Samantha Merritt [Signature #1020]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Samantha Merritt, Exeter, Tasmania, Australia<p>The W&#039;s are an icon, being an ex trammie I am disgusted that they have been disgaurded the way they have.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:34:40 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr James Robinson [Signature #1019]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr James Robinson, South Yarra, Victoria, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:38:54 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Steve Bucton [Signature #1018]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Steve Bucton, West Footscray, Vic, Australia<p>I grew up with these wonderful machines, they deserve to be saved in better numbers than proposed.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:18:31 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mikey G [Signature #1017]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mikey G, Brunswick, Victoria, Australia<p>I beleive that we need to keep the W class trams rolling around Melbourne in a larger capacity than just the city circle.  They are a part of our heritage, and while I am all for &#039;not standing in the way of progress&#039; I think we still need to hold onto our history.  The W class can be modified to today&#039;s safety and disability standards without losing much of their historical character.  Perhaps they don&#039;t need to be on commuter routes but a fleet of maybe 20 or so that trundle around a larger portion of the network in non-peak times that can be used as a tourist route but also for people to commute as well if, like myself, they prefer to ride on the older trams for something a bit different on my way to and from work.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms. Gretchen Wood [Signature #1016]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms. Gretchen Wood, Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America<p>I must pause from work on my thesis comparing the cultures of the American South with Australia to support keeping the Class W&#039;s in service. Although I find great irony that the City of Memphis has purchased W&#039;s to regenerate their own place identity, I would grieve Melbourne&#039;s loss of character. Riding along the expansive Mississippi River on Front St. is no substitute for authentically evoking your city&#039;s heritage when trundling through the bustling Victorian canyon that is Chapel Street. Take a lesson from the American South&#039;s impetuous selling off of its public spaces and please do not sell off these wonderful assets. Such a wound to Melbourne&#039;s cityscape cannot easily heal.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>MR Glenn Corbett [Signature #1015]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MR Glenn Corbett, Footscray, Victoria, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 05:01:02 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr Patrick Brady [Signature #1014]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr Patrick Brady, Point lonsdale, vic, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 12:01:34 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr James Leskovar [Signature #1013]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr James Leskovar, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 03:51:40 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[John Andrew Davidson, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia<p>Melbourne will never ber the same without them</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:16:16 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Karen Cook [Signature #1011]</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 03:23:42 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr &pound;ance NICKSON, LAVERTON., VICTORIA, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:51:17 UTC</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:25:38 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss Carina Wrigley, Craigieburn, VIC, Australia]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Michael Bishop [Signature #1006]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Michael Bishop, Elsternwick, Vic, Australia]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Justin Caddaye [Signature #1005]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Justin Caddaye, melbourne, ringwood, Australia<p>Save out trams! They are a national treasure and tourist attraction! More people in Melbourne means we need more trams! It&#039;s cheaper to fix old trams than buy new ones! Extend the tram lines! Double the tram numbers. Bring back Conductors! Increased revenue will result. 90% of the people using trams are NOT paying for tickets.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Wayne Heywood, Brunswick East, VIC, Australia<p>San Fransisco has more of Melbourne&#039;s W Class Trams than Melbourne. They appreciate the historic winning people mover design more than consecutive state governments.</p>

<p>A failure of policy and a complete lack of vision.</p>]]></description>
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They have so much history! All they need is a bit of love and maintenance. Look at how long they have lasted us, then compare them to the Citidas trams that break down when it warms up a bit.<br />
The slowness, accessibility, air-con and the noise can be fixed.<br />
Lets not loose this historic and major part of Melbourne.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Stanley Chaplin, Dandenong North, Victoria, Australia<p>why not keep the w-class trams and extend the ciity circle tram route that way there will be a need for more W-class trams and that way people can see more of the wonderful city that is Melbourne..</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Andrew GIGACZ, CLIFTON HILL, VIC, Australia<p>Suggestion - at least one W class tram on every route IN ADDITION to all scheduled services.</p>]]></description>
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To lose the W class trams would be lo lose Melbourne&#039;s history and heritage.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr GREG OATES, LISAROW, NEW SOUTH WALES, Australia<p>I feel that it is a henious betrayal to the people of Melbourne, as well as interstaters like me who love these historic trams. They are an icon of Melbourne, in fact, there are also many stored trams undercover at Newport Rail Workshops that deserve equal preservation status....at least 100 of these stored trams could be restored to full street running again. Please do what you can to stop the scrappers!!</p>]]></description>
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