boronia wrote:Platform doors at Chatswood
boronia wrote:I couldn't tell because that was the only section visible. There are partition walls down the middle of the platforms. I doubt they would provide gates if there won't be carriages on the other side. Perhaps there is allowance for longer sets in the future?
An even quicker solution would have been to terminate the extended Metro Northwest at Central as a first stage in conjunction with terminating the Airport Line at Central, which has previously been canvassed.rogf24 wrote:Even if the idea of converting this line is flawed, the conversion is the best shot there is at relieving the Sydney Trains network in the quickest amount of time. Doing something else will require lots of new time, pushing way beyond 2024. And time isn't something Sydney Trains has because of patronage growth.
Transtopic wrote:An even quicker solution would have been to terminate the extended Metro Northwest at Central as a first stage in conjunction with terminating the Airport Line at Central, which has previously been canvassed.rogf24 wrote:Even if the idea of converting this line is flawed, the conversion is the best shot there is at relieving the Sydney Trains network in the quickest amount of time. Doing something else will require lots of new time, pushing way beyond 2024. And time isn't something Sydney Trains has because of patronage growth.
Removing the Airport Line from the City Circle would free up even more paths than the Bankstown Line (at least 12tph), with a longer term goal to extend it from Central on a new alignment into the Northern CBD (eg Martin Place or St James). The advantage of retaining the Bankstown Line on the City Circle is that it can be split between the inner and outer City Circle via the flying junctions to balance line capacity on T2 (outer) and T8 (inner), with the addition of the Sydenham to Erskineville sextuplication.
Transtopic wrote:
As an example, Labor's original North West Metro via the Victoria Road corridor to the CBD, which was abandoned when Nathan Rees was rolled as Premier, would have been a far superior option than the current proposal.
swtt wrote:It would free up more paths, but tossing everyone off at Central after getting on at the airport stations, would be madness. Losing direct CBD access to the Airport Stations would not be politically viable for any party. This would disrupt far more passengers than the forecast disruptions to the T3.
boronia wrote:But I have always wondered why they don't get the NW Metro to Central as a priority while they are stuffing around with the rest of the line to Bankstown or wherever. Wouldn't this then free up capacity on the North Shore?
tonyp wrote:If I was living on the Bankstown line I'd be overjoyed with an increase in frequency to 4 minutes (with capacity for 2 minutes in the future), a slightly faster journey and not a great reduction in seats per hour to complain about - not to mention getting rid of stairs inside the trains! Some people complain about the most incredible things. That's even without mentioning Ecotransit, the advocates for more and better electric transit, complaining about more and better electric transit - nimby do as I say not as I do apparently. Fair dinkum, the world's gone mad.
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