Re: [MELB] City Loop issues

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

"Michael Wierzbinski" <wizzer1865@NOSPAMoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote in message
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> > Not really. Just about all the expresses (from Box Hill and beyond; as
well
> > as Glen Waverley) go through the loop. Just about all the stopping
trains go
> > direct to Flinders Street. Many people already change from one to the
other
> > at Richmond.
> >
> back before the loops were opened wasn't there surveys done as where
people were
> going, it was these results that decided the way the various loops would
> operate.

Probably, yes. Of course, 20 years later, these would be of limited use now.
The very construction of the loop has, I suspect, influenced development on
the north and east of the CBD, in much the same way that the intensive St
Kilda Road tram service influenced development down there.


Daniel
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