Re: Future Urban Transit System?

["Andrew Honan" <ahonan@zipworld.com.au>]

What about poor old Kingston Railway station!!
It has since lost all relevance. It is half way between a freight yard and a
passenger terminal. The best time about it was that you use to be able to go
to Cooma from there. Alas the Cooma line was totally uneconomical.
Regards
Andrew Honan


David Bromage <dbromage@omni.com.au> wrote in message
news:37CB18FC.2FFDA8C7@omni.com.au...
> David Bennetts wrote:
> >
> > Today's Canberra Times informs us that the Bishop Austrans people mover
> > system is to set up a 3km test/demonstration track in Canberra, near the
> > Australian Defence Force Academy, around the middle of next year.
>
> That first got mentioned in Saturday's CT. The system has always struck
> me as slightly less useful than the Sydney monorail.
>
>   If the
> > system is proven, it proposes to install a permanent connection between
the
> > Airport/Speedrail terminal and Canberra city
>
> Terminating Speedrail at the airport is stupid anyway. A VHST is not an
> aircraft,  and Speedrail would pick up more passengers in Civic than at
> the airport. A more logical solution would be to being Speedrail right
> into Civic, for example to a station on Constitutional Ave opposite the
> Convenbtion Centre.
>
> A people mover could run between a Speedrail airport station on Majura
> Road and the RPT could transfering the few passengers connecting between
> planes and trains. I had in mind something like the Lee+Elliott system
> at Houston Intercontinental Airport, but the Morgantown GRT or possibly
> the Dutch ParkShuttle driverless electric minibuses would also be
suitable.
>
> , and the Parliamentary
> > Triangle. The system uses 9 passenger cars, computer controlled, running
on
> > a dedicated guideway.  The proponents of the system envisage a world
market
> > for their proposal.
>
> Considering they make comparisons between their system and Transrapid
> (particulatly the "tourist" potential of the test tracks), I wouldn't
> hold my breath.
>
> Cheers
> David