Re: [Melb] Airport Heavy Rail Connection Needed! (longish post)

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

Les Chandra wrote in message <3b08b4c3@news.iprimus.com.au>...
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>Jeremy Lunn <spammers-will-die@austux.net> wrote in message
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>> In article <90A88CC7AgunzelT333@203.50.2.80>, Michael wrote:
>> > Ah. The local NIMBY movement in action. They claim to speak for
>"everyone"
>> > in the area. What a pity I *want* the airport line via Broadmeadows.
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>About a year or so ago, the PTUA suggested that the Broadmeadows route was
>the preferred route. I was then one of two who had to go out to meet the
>Broadmeadows Progress Association and justify our decision after we
received
>a battering.
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>The locals' concerns, apart from pure NIMBYism (which is there to a bit)
are
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>(1) There was not going to be any upgrade to the Broadmeadows line. That
is,
>level crossings would remain, with express trains flying past;
>(2) Trains would not stop anywhere between SS and the airport, meaning they
>would lose some local amenity for no gain;
>(3) They had been assured less than a year previously that there were no
>plans for a rail line under the flight path, and so they had started
>beautifying the area as a linear park. The route as proposed would bisect
>the park, cut through the sports ground (I think 1/2 a pavillion would have
>to be destroyed) and the facilities would be cut off from the residential
>area;
>(4) No-one had asked them what they wanted.
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>The govt proposal was also a line that would terminate at a station further
>from the terminal than the main car park. The train would then have to
speed
>at incredible speeds to make up for the time taken to walk to the station.
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>Not smart.
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>The PTUA proposed
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>(1) Building the station right up at the terminal, meaning that trains
would
>not have to run so fast
>(2) Running stopping trains from Broadmeadows through to the airport
>stopping at 2 new stations along the way (as well as expresses).
>(3) Upgrading the line south of Broadmeadows, and remove some of the worst
>(if not all) level crossings.
>(4) A proper EES process to make sure that environmental impact questions
>were answered BEFORE anything was finally decided.
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>Put that way, the local residents were not so upset, and might have changed
>their mind.
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>Now we have a new government, and where are we? Back to square 1.
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>Les
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PTUA agenda looks sensible, especially bits about level crossings and taking
passengers to the actual terminals.

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