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Remove City Loop trains from Burnley group lines
- Subject: Remove City Loop trains from Burnley group lines
- From: Peter <railvic@iprimus.com.au>
- Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 17:43:50 +1000
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: CWO Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to abuse@cwo.net.au
- Reply-To: railvic@iprimus.com.au
- Xref: news1.unite.net.au aus.rail:34395
Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
>
> Peter <railvic@iprimus.com.au> writes:
>
> >I am interested to find out what are people's view of removing ** DIRECT
> >** City Loop trains from Burnley group (Alamain/Belgrave/Glen
> >Waverley/Lilydale lines) during morning peak. Instead all services will
> >run direct to Flinders Street and most will then run around the Loop
> >afterwards. If those people choose to have direct Loop access during
> >that time, they would have to change at Richmond.
>
> This absolutely insane for the outer Burnley Group lines.
>
> You could get away with it for just the stopping-all-stations trains
> from Box-Hill and Alamein (ie, just make them go direct to Flinders St as
> they did about 5 years ago), but to do it for trains from Ringwood and
> Glen Waverley is counterproductive.
>
> There's just far too many people travelling in on those lines, and the
> vast majority of them go to Parliament, Museum and Flagstaff stations.
>
> To make them all change at Richmond is ridiculous, given the number of
> people, and the distance from the city that they have to travel already.
>
> Anyone who attempted this would have a very short career ahead of themselves
> in public transport.
>
> Paul.
>
> --
> Paul Dwerryhouse (paul@dwerryhouse.com.au)
> Amsterdam, The Netherlands. <---- current location
> Melbourne, Australia.