Re: Brisbane Light Rail,Briztram - questions

["Garry R. Ford" <garry@merddyn.apana.org.au>]

Colin Weaver wrote:

> > I take it that the objections were from the genteel burghers of St Lucia
> > to the folk of South Brisbane and West End being able to use the tram to
> > visit their treelined boulevards, rather than the other way round?
>
> Not so - when the previous government conducted an opinion poll of residents
> along the proposed BrizTram route, the peak levels of support (> 90%) were
> found in St Lucia and New Farm, both of which have now been dropped from
> the light rail scheme.  IMHO the reason why the St Lucia line has been
> dropped is entirely due to opposition to the scheme by the Labor member
> for South Brisbane / West End.

<snip>

Quite true, Worse still, they still use Briztrams projected patronage figures of
45-50,000. Trouble is 20,000 of those figures came from St Lucia / UQ and New
Farm.

Cheers

Garry
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