Re: Re: [Melb] Airport Heavy Rail Connection Needed!

["Derick Wuen" <cullend@webone.com.au>]

Daniel Bowen wrote in message ...
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>"Derick Wuen" <cullend@webone.com.au> wrote in message
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>> Daniel Bowen wrote in message ...
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>> >"Derick Wuen" <cullend@webone.com.au> wrote in message
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>> >> Sydney PTC Airport Express is about one third the taxi fare to CBD;
>> >> Melbourne Skybus significantly less than a third of taxi fare to CBD.
>So
>> >> does not seem way out of whack.
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>> >Skybus is $12. A taxi to the city would, by my estimate, be around $30.
>> Last
>> >time I went from the airport to my home by taxi (roughly twice the
>distance
>> >as from the city) it was about $60.
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>> Paid $40 SSS-Tullamarine last Wednesday, includes $3 "freeway" surcharge.
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>Ah okay. Was that in peak hour? IIRC, the taxi fares are distance-based,
but
>you do pay for sitting around in traffic.

Of course it was in peak hour.... thats when I travel. Before and after
business hours. No way I can avoid it without travelling well before morning
peak and well after afternoon peak. Most of the business community is
available 9-5, not other times. Airline schedules are constructed
accordingly. As I said, makes for a loooonnng day. Thats my fundamental
whinge. Road transport does not cope with peak requirements.

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>Citylink is in no way a freeway, btw. Quite definitely a tollway.
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Thanks (for stating the bleedin' obvious). My point is that in most other
cities the rail link does away with this problem and the attendant
unreliability of road transport.

>Daniel
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>Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
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