Re: Sydney's New Transitway

["Ken Neate" <kenneate@tig.com.au>]

The Y Link has no chance to reach its potential if trains are not run on it.
On week days there are no direct services from Campbelltown between 6.28am
and 8.33am.  Too bad for anyone who might want to start work in Parramatta
between 8 and 9.  I don't think it has anything to do we line capacity,
trains ran throughout the peak in the short time the abortive November, '96
timetable was in use.

Passengers can change at Glenfield, but look at the connections, some are as
long as 14 minutes.  Then there are classics such as the 7.45 am ex
Glenfield which just misses a train from Campbelltown at 7.46am!  In
practice a connection is often made. Is this just due to guards using some
common sense?

The Y Link, nearly two years old has been overlaid on the existing timetable
and is not a good fit.  Why did they spend all that money when the passenger
still has to change, Glenfield or Granville what's the difference?

Only that people who used the train while it lasted are now back on the
Cumberland Highway or Woodville Road.

rffergus@socs.uts.edu.au wrote in message
<6irge3$cqt$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>In article <35502BF1.E55C4B43@sia.net.au>#1/1,
>  Michael Edge <medge@sia.net.au> wrote:

>>
>> Along this line, I would be interested to see how the Y-link has
>> affected total Liverpool-Parramatta rail patronage compared to the
>> number of people who traveled this route when a change at Granville was
>> required.
>>
>
>The benefits of the Y-link will be largely unrealised, as particularly from
>Campbelltown, there are far too few peak hour services due to the line
being
>crammed full of East Hills / Granville / Regents Park / Bankstown line
trains
>(at least this was the case not so long ago).
>
>Another factor limiting the success of all rail services through Liverpool
is
>the severe shortage of car parking spaces available there when compared to
>demand. If the government really wanted to give public transport a leg up,
>they should consider secure (barrier entry, sercurity patrolled) free car
>parking at major rail hubs. The only problem is that as Sydney's rail
service
>is running over capacity as it is, it probably couldn't cope with the extra
>crowds unless lines were amplified, junctions seperated, and more trains
>built.
>
>
>> ======================
>> Michael Edge
>> Sydney, Australia
>>
>> email: medge@sia.net.au
>>
>
>
>Rob
>
>Sydney (Australia)
>
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