Re: Trams vs pedestrians in Syd

["geoff dawson" <geoffrey.dawson@aph.gov.au>]

Since my figures show that a congestion-free tram would do Circular-Quay
Central in 8-9 minutes with 9 stops, this must mean that the proposal
described in the EIS has no component of introducing public transport
priority traffic management. The proposal must be simply to add an extremely
slow congested  tram service to the present extremely slow congested bus
service. In my view this is regrettable. An opportunity missed. Geoff

>> "Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com> wrote in message
>> news:QU7R6.27523$hV3.42710@newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
>> | The following is a quote from the 1997 EIS for the Light Rail
extensions
>> | (page 54):
>> |
>> | "Proposed Operating Times in the CBD
>> |
>> | The tram would operate at the same speed as other vehicles on the road,
>> | expect [sic] in the Mall, Customs House Square and Farrer Place, where
it
>> | would be restriced to 20 kilometres per hour.  A circuit from Central
to
>> | Circular Quay and return to Central would take around 27 minutes in the
>> off
>> | peak period and around 31 minutes in the peak period.