Re: Webb Dock Rail Access -oops we need a new bridge!!!

[david <david@nmit.vic.edu.au>]

Good Post there,

There was a segment on 3LO this morning - and a planner  who knew nothing
about rail.
She  thought CITILINK should have planned for it - as if a road concern is
going to give and quarter to another from of transport ! She thought the
bridge should have had rail on it like the coat hanger in Sydney - imagine
the grades !

It also sound as if  the private operators know what they want in
efficiant intermodal connections, unlike the Webb dock line and all it's
use !



Yuri J Sos/Melbourne AUS wrote:

> In a classic "pigeons coming home to roost" scenario, the stuff-up
> over the closure of the Webb Dock railway line is now coming home to
> haunt those people laughingly called "planners".
>
> In the obscene rush to stick their snouts in the Docklands trough, the
> politicians and developers ignored the need for a rail link to Webb
> Dock (when I wrote letters to both the Premier and the Transport
> Minister, I got standard patronising "dear boy, you don't understand
> the big picture" type replies).
>
> Now it appears that there is a plan to build a new railway bridge
> across the Yarra beside and downstream from the Bolte Bridge to
> connect Webb Dock to the rest of the system via Appleton Dock.  This
> proposal also involves moving the mouth of the Moonee Ponds Creek.
>
> Needless to say, the planners are ducking for cover, saying this is
> what we planned all along.  The low level bridge would cut off the
> Yarra to sailing ships beyond that point, one of the major reasons why
> the Bolte bridge had to go so high.
>
> Myopic planning and incompetence on a grand scale!