Re: New form of rail transportation

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

MiCRiC <slagel@senet.com.au> wrote in message
3A123917.B24426F6@senet.com.au">news:3A123917.B24426F6@senet.com.au...
> >
> > Melbourne's train system is crying out for some form of ring railway or
a
> > form of public transportation to cut across town.Eventually this may to
some
> > extent be facilitated by an express bus service running along the ring
road
> > and Scoresby freeway but this would not be an optimal solution.
> >
>
> Shame on you for suggesting such as thing...

Shame shame shame!

 Public transport on
> freeways is of bugger all use to anyone.  Because it can only travel of
> a freeway it cant stop very often, and consequentially can serve a
> mininal number of distinations and wont appeal to consumers...  Journey
> time should not be top priority when planning for public transport...
> Frequency of service and network design are most critical....  Being on
> a slow moving vehicle is much better than sitting, or standing, at a
> stop waiting for a bus that may never come but if it does will get you
> there in ten seconds....
>
> my 2 cents
>
> micric

Thanks Micric

With respect to the ring road I had in mind a particular set up.

It is virtually inevitable that the ring rd will be extended to the Scorebsy
Freeway and beyond.

The idea I had in mind would have involved the following:

1. Extension of Glen Waverley line to Rowville so that it cuts across the
Scoresby Freeway.

2. Extension of Burwood Tram to Bayswater and Nth Boronia (follow Mountian
Highway)

3. Build bus/train or bus/tram interchange statiions along the freeway as
follows

At the intersections of the ring road and

a) St Albans line (not sure which station)

b) Broadmeadows line

c) Fawkner line

d) Epping line

e) Greensborough line

f)  Belgrave/Lilydale line

g) Nth Boronia tram

h) Scoresby line

i)  Dandenong line

j)  Frankston line

Where freeways intersect (ie the South Eastern) Bus interchanges could be
built as well. In total that would equate to about 20 interchanges.

The model for this is the northern line in Perth which functions evry well.
fast trains run up the middle of teh freeway and the interchanges make
changing to buses easy.

The above system would create a relatively cheap, fast cross town link.

My preferred option would be the same setup with a train running down the
middle of the ring road but teh bus option is cheaper and not too much
slower.

Seesm to work ok in Perth

cheers Peter