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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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?
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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?
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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
Sounds like a defensive response. Still more announcements to come by the government, including its response to the LA Inquiry.tonyp wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:50 pm Project update, February 2024.
https://www.sydneymetro.info/media/document/39296
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Sydney Metro West announced
- Replies: 516
- Views: 143085
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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?
- 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...