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  1. David says:

    Wow. That was fast, it only happened yesterday

  2. Jonathan says:

    ah so this is Christchurch. I thought I recognised it.

  3. Holly says:

    LOL! I just emailed this in too! Damn! Too slow! :P

  4. VIRGINIATECHROFL says:

    TAKE PILLS

  5. bloggersiva says:

    It’s not a mistake, where it was a mistery, see the train has a caption ” city tour ” since they have guided the visitors to see in (side) and around the city ( thats why they have parked the train inside a building….
    Haa…..
    haa….
    haa……

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  7. Stef says:

    This shot is really confusing. To me it looks like the tram has gone through a building wall (one with sliding doors). What doesn’t make sense to me is
    1. why there appear to be rails going IN TO the building when there’s clearly a wall there
    2. Why the top bar of what appears to be the sliding doors has entered the front of the tram without sustaining any damage or causing any damage to the tram.

    I know the shot is real, I just can’t for the life of me figure out what I’m looking at considering those two points. Help?

    • Smith says:

      The tramline passes through the building and they recently put closing electric doors for the entrances that open when the tram comes but yeah its failed!
      (i live in christchurch, it was in the news etc so yeah

  8. Someone says:

    How’d they manage getting THAT together?

  9. Seth Wagoner says:

    @stef, it is a bit confusing isn’t it!

    1) the Tram lines pass through a large glass topped area in the middle of town called “Cathedral Junction.”. One side has a boutique hotel (http://offthesquare.com) located above the tracks. I was their live-in IT guy once upon a time.

    2) The doors are not sliding… The one on the left of the picture is folded back against the wall. It looks to me like the other one auto-closed while the tram was passing through. Either that or it was closed and the driver ran into it – the tracks curve in that area so it would be possible that the driver couldn’t see it wasn’t open until too late. I imagine they will be introducing some more failsafes soon!

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  11. Kyle Gordon says:

    The Christchurch tram service at Cathedral Junction. It’s a big open building, kinda like a covered market square, with big automatic hinged doors that swing open when a tram approaches. Built into the swinging doors are smaller automatic sliding doors for pedestrians.

    When I was there two weeks ago, there were major building works going on just to the right of that photo. It wouldn’t surprise me if the builders have moved a sensor that indicates where the tram is…

  12. reinamurillo says:

    that’s fake

  13. Kiri says:

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/4486603a11.html

    Well it’s not. a fake, 3rd recent booboo.

  14. Contempt says:

    fake or not, hilarious.

  15. connor says:

    for more fail trams go to edinburgh and see the tram they’ve dumped on the high street halfway through construction because they ran out of money building the tracks

  16. polishnz says:

    this is not fake i was there i saw

  17. Red_Yoshi says:

    That is not a crash, that is just an exhibit.

  18. solo piano says:

    public transit fail.


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