Re: $550m to speed up Vic rail services

["Railway Rasputin3" <jamesccj@optusnet.com.au>]

Vaughan Williams <ender2000@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> It goes on to say the stations served by these fast
> > trains would be:
> >
> > Ballarat, Bacchus Marsh, Melton, North Melbourne, Spencer Street.
> > Bendigo, Castlemaine, Kyenton, Woodend, Sunbury, North Melbourne,
> > Spencer Street.
> > Traralgon, Morwell, Moe, Warragul, Flinders Street, Spencer Street.
> > South Geelong, Geelong, Nth Geelong, North Melbourne, Spencer Street.
>
> It doesn't say that.
> It indicates these are the ones with the highest patronage, but goes on
> to say (buried on page 4,681) that the feasibility studies were done
> based on the trains not stopping anywhere at all enroute to ballarat
> and bendigo, stopping only at dandenong enroute to traralgon, and at
> n/m and n/g enroute to geelong.
>
> So the current plans do not have the trains stopping anywhere. This
> needs to be reconsidered.
>
>
> > Also the report says these fast trains will supplement the existing
> > services.
>
> Yes, but the benefit of the fast trains need to extend to as many
> people as possible.
>
> > But I would be more worried about saving the double line to Bendigo,
> if
> > that goes single then the time savings would be next to none, single
> > line and crossing loops don't work after the line has been double for
> > 130+ years.  (Just look what happened to the Adelaide Hills, every day
> > the first train up the hills runs late because of the wet tracks and
> > then every other train for the rest of the day is late).
>
> Yes quite right, we will be opposing this.
>
> For the record, the PTUA's position is:
> * Frequency is at least as important as speed. Hourly or half-hourly
> frequencies to most places are to be preferred. Hours of operation are
> also important
> * Broadly support attempts to reduce travel time, provided cost is not
> so prohibitive as to leave no money for other things. Generally happy
> with present plans for infrastructure with notable exception of single
> vs double track (as below)
> * Buses in regional centres and to smaller towns need fixing
> * Line to Ballarat should be duplicated at least as far as Melton,
> preferably all the way with the exception of the bridge over the
> reservoir
> * Line to Bendigo must under no circumstances be single-tracked
> * Trains should stop at the major centres, with precise stopping
> patterns subject to further consultation with local communities. Local
> stopping trains are required in addition to the faster expresses.
> * reopening lines to Ararat, Maryborough, and improved services to
> Warrnambool, Swan Hill, etc, should be considered as part and parcel of
> the upgrade
>
> Vaughan
I would like to have a look at the report, where can you get it?

Cheers
James



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