Re: Trams vs pedestrians in Syd

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"neumannc" <neumannc@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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| Tezza wrote:
| > "Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com> wrote in message
| > | 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.
| >
| > I'll take the train thanks. 7/8 minutes each way.
|
| OK.  Point to point train 7/8 minutes, two intermediate stops, time to
| get down to train (or up from street at Circular Quay and Central, say 5
| minutes each end.

You are joking right? Try 2/4 minutes total, not 10 minutes. It takes less
than 2 minutes to get from Eddy Avenue to 17pf and less than a minute from
CQ to the street.


 Overall 17/18 minutes then a walk to your destination.
|
| Light rail - on street,

Not at Central, so walking time involved there too from the street.


| 5 intermediate stops, no going down to the
| underground or up from the street, much better chance of being closer to
| your ultimate destination, 15/16 minutes.  And more frequent service!
|
| Chris