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RE: St.Albans rail crossing
- Subject: RE: St.Albans rail crossing
- From: Vaughan Williams <ender2000@MailAndNews.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 08:55:04 -0400
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
- Sender: Vaughan Williams <ender2000@MailAndNews.com>
- Xref: news1.unite.net.au aus.rail:35612
None of which means that the removal of level crossings isn't a Good
Thing
(tm).
I wouldn't for a moment suggest that St Albans is necessarily first on the
list, but grade separations (preferably lowering the rail not raising the
road) are a low cost, high benefit way to improve traffic flow, particularly
with the high frequencies the PTUA advocates. It also provides an
opportunity
to design a proper Canadian-style bus/rail interchange.
Vaughan
>Or people could just do what is clearly required of them by the road laws
>and from common sense, and not queue on the crossing. It's *not* hard to
>avoid it. We get huge numbers of trains at peak hour here in Glen Huntly,
>and people seem to manage.
Vaughan Williams
Secretary
Public Transport Users Association
247 Flinders Lane
Melbourne 3000
http://www.ptua.org.au