Re: [NSW] - hilarious SMH article

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"David Burns" <dpburns@veal.optushome.com.au> wrote in message
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> My immediate answer is that the Government should look for modifications
> to increase capacity on some of the critical parts of the network. Again
using the
> northern line as an example (and everyone else jump in on the other lines)
> extending the down relief (the freight line) from Rhodes to West Ryde
> (note that the bridge over the Parra river already has pylons for a third
line)
> would reduce some (not all) of the pressure.
>
> I appreciate that this will take years (eg. look at how long the
Merrylands Y link
> took to build). But as far as I can see projects such as this aren't even
on the
> horizon...

I think that all double lines should have a third (bi-directional) tracj
added, to give two lines in the peak direction, i.e. two up/one down in the
am peak, one up/two down in the pm peak. Would help to segregate fast and
slow trains.

Dave