Re: [Melbourne Australia] Mont Albert to Box Hill and Docklands tramway extensions

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

Vaughan Williams (ender2000@my-deja.com) won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:
> The PTUA has been trying for a while to have the terminus located in
> the pedestrianised Market St at the doors to Box Hill Central so as to
> make tranferring between the tram and the trains and buses as easy as
> possible.

IMHO, that would be a very short sighted move. It would preclude further
extensions to Middleborough Rd and/or Doncaster.

The Box Hill extension was seriously proposed just before the Kirner
government was voted out. Had it gone ahead, the next project would have
been extending the route 48 to Doncaster. After that, the two lines would
have joined by building a line along Tram Rd.

> Otherwise, people from places like Balwyn and Kew trying to go further
> east (who would take a tram then a train) will have to cross the three
> lanes of Whitehorse Rd traffic

Traffic lights can solve this.

> and then walk several hundred metres along Market St to the train station.

It's not that far! It's only about 100m to the doors of Box Hill Central.
Less walking than between tram and train at Spencer St or Museum.

> Didn't that line used to go to Box Hill, and some idiot decided to
> shorten it??

No. There was a private tram line from Box Hill to Doncaster in 1889.

Cheers
David