Re: Travel patterns (was Re: New form of rail transportation)

["Peter Berrett" <pberrett@optushome.com.au>]

Anthony Morton <amorton@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au> wrote in message
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> Rod [comtrain] <Comtrain@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> >Don't you think that running a Train Service from ...say Nunawading to
> >Frankston, would cause many hundreds of people, to rethink their
employment
> >possibilities.
>
> It certainly would, but I can imagine the sort of thing that would happen.
> Joe in Frankston is looking for a job as a computer programmer and sees
one
> listed in Nunawading.  Previously he might not have thought of working so
> far away, but the new train service makes this a possibility.  So he gets
the
> job and travels from Frankston to Nunawading each day.  Meanwhile Joanna
in
> Nunawading, who applied for the same job but narrowly missed out, finds a
> similar job in Frankston shortly afterwards that might otherwise have been
> taken by Joe.  So you have two people travelling for two hours a day
entirely
> needlessly.

But why did they take the job in Nunawading and not get a job nearby? Better
two hours a day than being unemployed.

cheers peter

>
> Transport planners refer to this kind of phenomenon as 'cross-commuting'.
Of
> course if they were travelling by car the waste would be far more
apparent.
> But regardless of how Joe and Joanna travel to work, if they were both
working
> locally they'd have more time to use in other ways.
>
> >I believe that rotten bus services and peak hour traffic jams would be
the
> >VERY REASON that so few people according to your census travel radially.
>
> In the outer eastern suburbs, the rotten bus services prevent people
> travelling any way at all.  And I think you'll find the traffic jams occur
> in virtually all directions in peak hour, due simply to the large amount
of
> local car travel.
>
> >Then again Fitsimmonds lane is bumper to bumper from 4 till 7 every
> >nite...maybe they all go fishing along the Yarra.!
>
> Who says Fitzsimons Lane isn't a radial road?  It's the primary access to
> Eltham, Greensborough and Diamond Creek from the City via the Eastern
Freeway.
>
> Regards,
> Tony M.
>
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