Re: Box Hill Tram update

["Bryan Cullis" <spanky81@tpg.com.au>]

It still is the busiest suburban station outside of Flinders St., and it
appears that the design was so people would buy things on their way out of
the complex or between train and bus stations.  Let's also remember it was
the eighties!!  Anyway, I use the transport centre every day travelling from
East Ringwood to Deakin University and I think it works fine.  If only the
train and bus times were co-ordinated!!  Now THAT'S what I'd call a
transport centre!

Bryan

"David McLoughlin" <davemcl@NO***damned***SPAMiprolink.co.nz> wrote in
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> Daniel Bowen wrote:
> >
> > From what I observed of passenger patterns when I used it, it is a
transport
> > interchange - just a badly designed one.
>
>
> Certainly through all my childhood, the Market Street and Main Street
> kerbs to the north of the railway station were terminating bus stops for
> buses to North Box Hill, Doncaster, Templestowe,  Balwyn, East Kew etc
> etc, while there was a bus parking area on the south side of the station
> where buses to places as far away as Mordialloc terminated.
>
> The buses ran there to feed / pick up passengers to and from the trains.
> Box Hill was the busiest station in Melbourne outside Flinders Street.
>
> It sure looked like a transport interchange to me.
>
> David McLoughlin
> Auckland New Zealand