Monorail

[boronia]

With less than 12 months of life left, a few shots of the southern side of the loop from the weekend:

Turning from Day St into Liverpool St

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Approaching the disused Chinatown/Garden Plaza station

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Outside Maccas at the SEC

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Outside the also soon to be demolished SEC

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Leaving World Square station

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Up Pitt St through the "Korean Quarter".

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and a few LightRail shots:

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The two remaining cars in fleet livery pass in Hay St

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[sta]

here are my photos of the Monorail that i snapped today.Hope you enjoy it.

I covered QVB-pitt St-World sqaure.Next time i'm gonna cover the rest of the track locations.

[boronia]

This is World Square station back when WS was just a big swimming pool

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[Andrew]

Oh original TNT livery - the best one it has worn.

[sta]

June 30th will be the last day of the Monorail.

I wonder why they couldn't just great rid of the part around the SEC and extend the monorail tracks to somewhere like Bondi or Boardway or somewhere without demoshing it.

Wouldn't it be perfect if they charge $4 for a trip to bondi.I think people might use it but the only issue is it will be hard work to figure out a route for the monorail to travel from the City CBD to bondi and the cost will be expensive.


Well anyway R.I.P Monorail.

[boronia]

Monorails, esp this one, are NOT mass transit options for long, heavily trafficed routes.

[Andrew]

June 30th will be the last day of the Monorail.

30th July???

[sta]

June 30th will be the last day of the Monorail.

30th July???

Sydney's monorail to make its final stop on June 30 next year

SYDNEY'S controversial monorail has officially come to the end of the line with Transport Minsiter Gladys Berejiklian revealing it will stop operating on June 30 next year.



June 30th 2013.

[sta]

Monorails, esp this one, are NOT mass transit options for long, heavily trafficed routes.

why not do somthing like the Chongqing Rail Transit 55.6 km and Shanghai Maglev Train 30.5 km.i'm sure the CBD to bondi is less then 15km running down oxford st.

Toyko's monorail line serves heaps of customers which i don't see why didn't sydney monorail do the same back before it began.

[Andrew]

June 30th 2013.

Well okay - it was a bit confusing given we're quite close to June 30 2012 but the monrail is still clearly running......

[Daz]

I swear it's Sydney's only choice- throw up your hands and raise your voice.

Daz

[boronia]

Monorails, esp this one, are NOT mass transit options for long, heavily trafficed routes.

The Tokyo monorail is basically a feeder to the airport from the city rail network. It traverses mainly industrial and port land, not residential. With all the outcry over something as "discrete" as our version, I shudder to think how something of Tokyo's scale would go down in residential and commercial areas in the Bondi corridor.

Other similar systems in Japan have been built PRIOR to, or in conjunction with, local development, so do tend to fit in better with their surroundings.

[Bedford-29]

If you want to have the Tokyo,Chiba,Tama and Okinawa monorail lines have a gander at these links.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnPATvzAsN8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYIP1L6pOOw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E70luQxsvo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SptlOXtD1I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzvfY_rkYNI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ipQ5Tk4QM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxRdndTYeMc

[Fleet Lists]

Is it just me or do none of the above have anything to do with Monorails?

[boronia]

Must be just you.

I could see monorails in all those links (preceded by ads).

They do highlight how intrusive the structures can be, although they are designed to be severe earthquake proof.

[Bedford-29]

All I can say is watch the you-tube links the ads go 5 to 10 seconds and yes fleetlists they are to do with monorails.

[BLBUS]

Why are they pulling down the monorail?
Im mexican

[sta]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/s ... 6404992754

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Loc3YeJwE6Y

here's the answer to your question ^

[boronia]

Why are they pulling down the monorail?
Im mexican

1. The Lord mayor and some pollies don't like it
2. At 25 years old , Mechanically it is getting worn out and needs replacing
3. The trackage around Chinatown is allegedly in the way of proposed new developments.

[sta]

Why are they pulling down the monorail?
Im mexican

1. The Lord mayor and some pollies don't like it
2. At 25 years old , Mechanically it is getting worn out and needs replacing
3. The trackage around Chinatown is allegedly in the way of proposed new developments.

Too costly to run as well

And not many people use it.

I don't see how the monorail is in the way other then that curve right next to the sec.

They could make a extension from the carpark to right next to the Sydney markets then make a turn back to it's route again.i'm sure there has to be room.

[boronia]

I don't know what it costs to run, but I understand the operators don't loose money on it.

It seems to get acceptable loadings, there have always been standing passengers when I have ridden it.

It could be rerouted to the other side of the tramline, but the government is looking for an excuse to pull it down, rather than the expense of doing it up. Picture 2488 above shows the "offending" area.

[sta]

I don't know what it costs to run, but I understand the operators don't loose money on it.

It seems to get acceptable loadings, there have always been standing passengers when I have ridden it.

It could be rerouted to the other side of the tramline, but the government is looking for an excuse to pull it down, rather than the expense of doing it up. Picture 2488 above shows the "offending" area.

Wouldn't it be better if they replaced the old monorails with new ones and start refurbish the tracks after changing the SEC section.

They could make travel passes just like ferries,trams and buses to make it more affordable.

[boronia]

The tracks are quite possibly getting near "life expired", so they would probably have to replace the lot, to a higher engineering standard.

Making it "free" would simply attract more patronage than it could handle. A lot of light rail patronage now seems to be one stop travellers who might previously have walked. There is a lot of "free" travel now between Central and Capitol Square/Paddy's that never existed before.

[busmadrod]

its a shame that the monorail is going, when i was in sydney earlier this year i used it extensively as we stayed at Darling Harbour and each train was very well patronised, this sounds to me like another Liberal/National Party money saving enterprise at the expense of Public Transport.

[sta]

I will spent money on travelling the monorail for the last time this year.

Could i ask if anyone know if you can travel two times around the course by paying $5?????

would want to take my Camera and start flimming on the first round and take pictures the second round.Just to remember the moments of the monorail.


I agree it basically takes you no where but still it takes you somewhere at least like pitt st to the power house museum eventho you can walk there.