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by Transtopic
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:38 am
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: West Connex Interchange Abject Failure.
Replies: 73
Views: 6114

Re: West Connex Interchange Abject Failure.

It'll be interesting to see if they take up the suggestion of reintroducing two way tolling on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and what the flow on effect from that might be. It's inevitable, as well as on the Harbour Tunnel and Eastern Distributor. You can't have differing tolls on the Harbour Bridge, H...
by Transtopic
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:03 am
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: Rail Observations 2024
Replies: 105
Views: 8664

Re: Rail Observations 2024

Constance said not long ago that the previous government put over $2 billion into the suburban system and they never saw any results for it. It's not hard to see that governments of both sides would see the suburban system as a bottomless money pit and turn to favour metro as the way forward. There...
by Transtopic
Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:03 pm
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: Rail Observations 2024
Replies: 105
Views: 8664

Re: Rail Observations 2024

Perhaps all of these recent infrastructure failures are a direct result of the leaving the Sydney Trains network to rot with the lack of adequate maintenance, let alone upgrading, while funds have been redirected to the cost blowouts on the new metro lines. It's a huge network and needs more than ju...
by Transtopic
Mon Mar 11, 2024 6:17 pm
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown
Replies: 5215
Views: 1024114

Re: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown

But the point is that the conversion of the existing Bankstown Line to driverless metro isn't a new line. That's the difference. While it's completely feasible to convert legacy rail lines to GoA2, with a driver still onboard, it's breaking new ground to convert existing surface lines to GoA4 drive...
by Transtopic
Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:32 pm
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown
Replies: 5215
Views: 1024114

Re: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown

Perhaps it was because they weren't converting an existing legacy surface line in Hong Kong which still had to operate until its complete closure for final conversion. Chatswood to Sydenham is an entirely new line. Sent from my SM-S911B using Tapatalk But the point is that the conversion of the exi...
by Transtopic
Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:42 pm
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown
Replies: 5215
Views: 1024114

Re: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown

Sydney Metro has 4 weekend closures in March, 2 in April and 2 in May. This is just awful. :evil: Sydney Metro's parent company MTR opened various extensions in its home country Hong Kong (East Rail Line, Kwun Tong Line, Island Line) and all of them opened without disrupting the existing service to...
by Transtopic
Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:51 am
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: West Connex Interchange Abject Failure.
Replies: 73
Views: 6114

Re: West Connex Interchange Abject Failure.

It's all Labor's fault isn't it?
by Transtopic
Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:47 pm
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: Rail Observations 2024
Replies: 105
Views: 8664

Re: Rail Observations 2024

David Elliot called all train crew and workers terrorist when it was his department that shut down all trains for a whole day without warning. That was honestly one of the most disgraceful things I've seen in a long time. The entire NIF affair was a display of woeful incompetence but shutting down ...
by Transtopic
Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:09 pm
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: Rail Observations 2024
Replies: 105
Views: 8664

Re: Rail Observations 2024

At least we've been spared a new colour scheme (so far). Like the previous government did when they came to power? I have never been a fan of the orange branding of Sydney Trains and its "T" designation. There's not enough contrast in the signage with the lightly coloured orange backgroun...
by Transtopic
Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:01 pm
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: Rail Observations 2024
Replies: 105
Views: 8664

Re: Rail Observations 2024

That's probably why things went pear shaped quite often. And no doubt because of sectorisation. In a perfect world, crews should be restricted to their sector, rather than trying to spread them too thinly across the whole network, which at the end of the day is a cost saving measure. If Sydney Trai...
by Transtopic
Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:04 pm
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: Rail Observations 2024
Replies: 105
Views: 8664

Re: Rail Observations 2024

Still no word on final report of Sydney Trains Review, which was supposed to be completed in October last. Has anyone heard anything?
by Transtopic
Fri Feb 09, 2024 8:15 pm
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: [SMH] Monorail to be pulled down/Acquired by Government
Replies: 219
Views: 24051

Re: [SMH] Monorail to be pulled down/Acquired by Government

I've got a copy of the first Gregory's street directory published in the 1930s, not that I'm that old. That must be the reproduction released a while ago. Great for tracing the trams. Yes it is. It's interesting to view the road (and tram) network as it then was and follow how they have developed o...
by Transtopic
Fri Feb 09, 2024 7:42 pm
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: Sydney Metro West announced
Replies: 516
Views: 143085

Re: Sydney Metro West announced

Sounds more like a routine project overview and update to me. Strange coincidence though, a couple of days after the Inquiry report was tabled in Parliament. The Inquiry report basically supports continuation of the project, but questions the previous focus on a 20 minute journey time which is a co...
by Transtopic
Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:40 pm
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: [SMH] Monorail to be pulled down/Acquired by Government
Replies: 219
Views: 24051

Re: [SMH] Monorail to be pulled down/Acquired by Government

I've got a copy of the first Gregory's street directory published in the 1930s, not that I'm that old.
by Transtopic
Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:32 pm
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: Sydney Metro West announced
Replies: 516
Views: 143085

Re: Sydney Metro West announced

tonyp wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:50 pm Project update, February 2024.

https://www.sydneymetro.info/media/document/39296
Sounds like a defensive response. Still more announcements to come by the government, including its response to the LA Inquiry.
by Transtopic
Sat Jan 27, 2024 10:22 pm
Forum: News & Administration
Topic: Email Notifications
Replies: 5
Views: 539

Re: Email Notifications

Still waiting for a response Fleet Lists.
by Transtopic
Thu Jan 25, 2024 6:52 pm
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: When will Sydney track speeds get back up to 130-160km/h
Replies: 75
Views: 5395

Re: When will Sydney track speeds get back up to 130-160km/h

Northern Sydney Freight Corridor program was completed in 2016 with third down line opened between Epping and Thornleigh. There is a Stage 2 proposal to quad Rhodes to West Ryde and triple Thornleigh to Hornsby, but this is more to accommodate extra freight services than allowing for passenger serv...
by Transtopic
Wed Jan 24, 2024 9:25 pm
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: When will Sydney track speeds get back up to 130-160km/h
Replies: 75
Views: 5395

Re: When will Sydney track speeds get back up to 130-160km/h

Also consider timetables for a given line are generally built based on the slowest train on a given line, so benefits may not be seen immediately once commissioned. That would depend on how far away such technology is from full commissioning on that line. Plus the idea of track speeds over 130 woul...
by Transtopic
Mon Jan 22, 2024 11:31 pm
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown
Replies: 5215
Views: 1024114

Re: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown

If the trains overshoot the mark, slam it into reverse. Have doors that only open when the doors align enough. Well that is possible, but not ideal. There could be wider PSDs to allow for driver variation in stopping, not to mention the marginal difference in door spacing in current DD rolling stoc...
by Transtopic
Mon Jan 22, 2024 10:18 pm
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown
Replies: 5215
Views: 1024114

Re: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown

The ESR can already run trains at sub 2.5-minute intervals, I regularly see it at Redfen when there is a disruption. They don't table that frequency as there is no scope for error. One train at Town Hall with 'boarding difficulties' and the system clogs up for the rest of the peak hour. Town Hall n...
by Transtopic
Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:10 pm
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown
Replies: 5215
Views: 1024114

Re: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown

The trains you catch will have more demand and more stops sure, but will also come more often. Hurstville all stops will come more often than every ten minutes when the signalling upgrades are over. So you won't be worse off The ESR can already run trains at sub 2.5-minute intervals, I regularly se...
by Transtopic
Mon Jan 22, 2024 6:47 pm
Forum: News & Administration
Topic: Email Notifications
Replies: 5
Views: 539

Re: Email Notifications

All notifications for topics I've subscribed to in the Discussion - Sydney/NSW forum.
by Transtopic
Sun Jan 21, 2024 10:58 pm
Forum: News & Administration
Topic: Email Notifications
Replies: 5
Views: 539

Email Notifications

I have not been receiving email notifications for some time, even though I have always checked the boxes in the Board Preferences. I had previously received them, but then they suddenly stopped without any change to my preferences. Has anyone else had a similar problem?
by Transtopic
Sat Jan 20, 2024 9:04 pm
Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
Topic: When will Sydney track speeds get back up to 130-160km/h
Replies: 75
Views: 5395

Re: When will Sydney track speeds get back up to 130-160km/h

Assuming that it was seven kilometres that had its speed reduced from 160km/h to 115km/then that would have only added one minute to the journey time, if it were the full 20 kilometres from Blacktown to Penrith then it would be three minutes. And that is not factoring in the extra acceleration or d...

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