Re: Melbourne Double deckers

["Graeme" <gvrail@thatsent.com.au>]

Daniel

I'm sorry I can't agree with your views on frequencies.  In Perth, THE MOST
CAR DOMINATED CITY IN AUSTRALIA, getting people onto the trains required
very frequent services.  Because rail is capital intensive the added labour
cost on driver only trains to increase frequencies is by comparison small.
The minimum frequency on the heavy routes into Melbourne should be 3 minutes
peak hour, 7.5 minutes off peak.  15 minutes very early morning and late at
night.  Perth might be small and people are saying you can't compare Perth
and Melbourne/Sydney, but you can.  Our busiest line carries just 35,000
people per day and we use the frequencies described above.  On the Fremantle
Line which was closed in 1979 and replaced with buses, we increased
frequency from half hourly in the off peak to every 15 minutes and the peak
from every 20 minutes to 10 minutes.  Traffic increased from 8,000 per day
to 25,000 pax per day.

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Graeme Vellacott
PO Box 322
CANNINGTON 6987
AUSTRALIA
Email:   gvrail@thatsent.com.au
Ph/Fax: +61 8 9451 5630
Daniel Bowen <dbowen@#DELETE#custard.net.au> wrote in message
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> Ashley Wright <ajwright@spam.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> > I would think that frequencies from most outer
> > suburbs should be about 10-15 minutes peak and 20-30 minutes off peak
> > to be attractive enough to customers.
>
> A bit less than what we've got now in Melbourne.
>
> Southern and eastern Melbourne lines are now pretty much standardised at
15
> minute frequencies off-peak. Other lines 20 minutes. All lines 20 mins
> Saturdays and Sunday afternoons. 30 mins Sunday mornings, 40 mins Sunday
> nights. Peak varies from about every 4 mins (Ringwood) to 10
(Sandringham),
> with the worst being Upfield (20 mins) and the outer south eastern
reaches,
> past Dandenong.
>
>
> Daniel
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> Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
> dbowen at custard dot net dot au
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