Re: [MELB] City Loop issues

["Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au>]

"Anthony Morton" <amorton@mudguard.ee.mu.oz.au> wrote in message
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> PTUA policy is for a public transport system that provides fast, frequent,
> easy-to-use and easy-to-understand service to the widest practicable range
of
> destinations.  Vaughan has suggested that this would be best achieved in
the
> case of City Loop services by running different train groups in different
> directions and making the direction uniform throughout the day.  To make
the
> proposal concrete he has suggested reversing the direction of the Burnley
> group thus making the upper level of the loop uniformly anticlockwise and
> the lower level uniformly clockwise.  The idea has a way to go before it
> becomes formal PTUA policy.

I would presume this idea would include reversing the current weekend
directions of the Burnley and Caulfield loops, for consistency?

Or if overcrowding of Caulfield loop trains (from Burnley people going to
Parliament or Melb Central) is a problem, what about instead running the
Caulfield loop clockwise, and Burnley anti-clockwise?


Daniel

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Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
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