Re: Sydney Light Rail Fails New Years Eve Challenge

[rffergus@socs.uts.edu.au]

In article <36982bab.3130868@news.bigpond.com>,
  billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org (Bill Bolton) wrote:
> "David Proctor" <daproc@spam_this.umpires.com> wrote:
>
> > At the same time, people are not going to use method of transit to get in to
> > Central, and then change to another to get further into the city, when a bus
> > will already take them all the way.
>
> They will if there's a significant overall transit time advantage and
> a simple interchange.

You have yet to propose a solution that would achieve a "significant overall
transit time advantage", and no, the idea for a tunnel underneath Railway
Square to terminate at Central does not count.

> Many commuters catch ferries to the city, knowing that will need to
> interchange, when the could have a one set bus ride.  They do it
> because it gets them to the destination significantly quicker.

Yes, significantly being the operative word. How exactly would changing to a
bus, or even a train, make a journey from the Inner West to the CBD
'significantly' quicker?

>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>
>


Rob

Sydney (Australia)

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