Re: Syd Airport Link

["Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au>]

Tezza <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Chris Downs"
> > Tezza
> > >
> > > "Chris Downs"
> > > > I've also noticed an upswing (trying hard to be objective) in
passengers
> > > > generally bound for the airport by rail and loadings continue to
> > improve, again from what I observe.  46,000(?) journeys per weekday
within 2
> > years may not be too far off the mark.
> > >
> > >
> > > I think you're being as optimistic as the owners who are currently
> > claiming 10,000 per day. 1,000 per day would be a very generous estimate
at
> the
> > moment.
> > > Domestic Terminal is currently the busiest station, with a mix of
> > travellers and workers.
> > >
> >
> > Unless someone's playing silly buggers with stats I thought it was
10,000
> > per day some months ago with a 2% growth rate.  Without doing the
compound
> > calc that approximates to a doubling in patronage each year if the
2%/week
> > increase is maintained or 40,000+ within two years.
>
> Not a chance, 1,000 per day tops and that's being generous - what do other
> Driver's and guards say?
>
> The owners are just out and out lying, just as happened with the
motorways,
> harbour tunnel and casino when they opened. They bullshit in the
prospectus
> and don't want to admit it.
>
At 250 trains/day you need 40 people per train (join or leave) from one of
the 4 stations to reach 10,000 passengers/day.  Many trains are below this
figure but many are above.  The figures aren't implausible.