Re: Capacity to handle humungous crowds

["David Proctor" <daproc@bigfoot.com>]

Dave McL wrote in message <350DC580.6DD5@iprolink.co.nz>...

>> Weekday rail traffic is roughly 1 million return journeys, say
>>500,000 people (270 million per year, incl. Sat/Sun).  It seems to
>>stretch the system
>
>Very impressive figures. Melbourne rail traffic is what?  About 100
>million a year? Yet Melbourne has more rail lines than Sydney.


Thats news to everyone - it depends what you define as a rail line.

In terms of the numbers of lines and terminii, Melbourne does indeed have
more lines - but in terms of the complexity of the system, Sydney is a much
bigger system - two ways to get to Hornsby, three to get to Liverpool, four
to Campbelltown, all of the cross-suburban links (Campbelltown - St Marys,
etc)

I dont think that ANYONE could honestly say that Melbourne has more than
Sydney of ANYTHING when it comes to railways (except maybe level crossings).

Regards

David Proctor
daproc@bigfoot.com