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- Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:32 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown
- Replies: 5325
- Views: 1046649
Re: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown
Lol. A delay until 2025 might have been more believable this morning.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 9:43 am
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown
- Replies: 5325
- Views: 1046649
Re: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown
261 is an interesting one given it currently goes River - Shirley - Pac Hwy.
Particularly city bound it's nearest stop is a few blocks away from the new station.
Not sure if many options for rerouting either given the terrain.
Particularly city bound it's nearest stop is a few blocks away from the new station.
Not sure if many options for rerouting either given the terrain.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:26 am
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown
- Replies: 5325
- Views: 1046649
Re: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown
From the open day, appeared the southern entrance needed a bridge/roof constructed to Miller St over the Denison St level below.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:57 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: NSW Electric Bus Plan
- Replies: 1681
- Views: 167475
Re: NSW Electric Bus Plan
The proper alternative first hit the road on 29 April 1882 and is still the first choice of operators around the world Which cities are still using horse drawn trams as their main form of transportation? Even in the tram centric city of Melbourne, annual patronage on buses is only just behind trams...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown
- Replies: 5325
- Views: 1046649
Re: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown
So will they be getting a whole new fleet of (electric?) buses? .. much as the operator of Chatswood - Epping got a brand new fleet.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 2:29 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: West Connex Interchange Abject Failure.
- Replies: 76
- Views: 7111
Re: West Connex Interchange Abject Failure.
Plenty of rich people catch buses, at least the former government routes going through affluent areas as it's often more convenient than driving. The following article on the Rozelle Interchange fiasco features a Balmain resident who drives daily to work in Moore Park. Could she easily catch a bus ...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:07 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: NSW Electric Bus Plan
- Replies: 1681
- Views: 167475
Re: NSW Electric Bus Plan
The main issue with hydrogen v.a.v. battery is running cost. Making green hydrogen uses 2.5-3x the amount of electricity to move a given vehicle the same amount as a similar battery vehicle. And then you've got distribution costs on top. There is research into cheaper methods but none of them are an...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 7:38 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: New Country Trains
- Replies: 229
- Views: 70015
Re: New Country Trains
Pics
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- Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:27 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: NSW Electric Bus Plan
- Replies: 1681
- Views: 167475
Re: NSW Electric Bus Plan
Spent lithium batteries can have a second life as storage batteries, and then after that can be recycled - well over 90% recoverable.Swift wrote: The spent Lithium batteries from EVs are going to be an environmental calamity the more we use them.
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- Sun Dec 31, 2023 9:13 am
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Opal Discussion and Observations
- Replies: 9717
- Views: 1893942
Re: Opal Discussion and Observations
When opal cards were first issued in Dec 2012 the opal system was only operating as a very small trial on a couple of bus routes. Started on select ferry routes.. and you had to fill in a form and mail it in to get the card. While I still have my original card, I've shifted the balance to a new one...
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 9:07 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Safer Freight Package - Trucks can now be 2.55m
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4115
Re: Safer Freight Package - Trucks can now be 2.55m
Interesting video on the 2.55m Perth Mercedes hydrogen trial buses
https://youtu.be/36yXoVZrgVo?si=Hdx5f2OWPxKpjz0b
https://youtu.be/36yXoVZrgVo?si=Hdx5f2OWPxKpjz0b
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 5:25 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Safer Freight Package - Trucks can now be 2.55m
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4115
Safer Freight Package - Trucks can now be 2.55m
https://minister.infrastructure.gov.au/ ... -australia
From 1 October trucks with additional safety features are now allowed to be 2.55m which opens up more import options.
Doesn't seem to apply to buses where it would also add options.
From 1 October trucks with additional safety features are now allowed to be 2.55m which opens up more import options.
Doesn't seem to apply to buses where it would also add options.
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 5:20 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Rail Observations 2023
- Replies: 521
- Views: 58351
Re: Rail Observations 2023
That sort of thing is always a juggling act. More service for some passengers is a slower trip for others. And the more total services you have to run (as patronage grows) the harder it is to schedule expresses unless you go down the path of adding dedicated track. Had patronage dropped that much t...
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 12:21 am
- Forum: News & Administration
- Topic: Future of the board
- Replies: 148
- Views: 55579
Re: Future of the board
Not a big poster.. but I typically follow along some threads of interest using Tapatalk. But as some may have seen there has been a little shakeup in Tapatalk recently with the original team buying back the platform from private equity, And 100s of forums aligned with VerticalScope shifting to its n...
- Fri Sep 15, 2023 12:06 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Opal Discussion and Observations
- Replies: 9717
- Views: 1893942
Re: Opal Discussion and Observations
Fri, Sat and Sun are now an $8.90 cap.ScaniaGrenda wrote: so how about starting at Sunday with either a $2.50 cap
We used to have a lower cap on Sundays only - and it caused havoc with the ferry service on sunny Sundays.
- Fri Sep 15, 2023 10:56 am
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Opal Discussion and Observations
- Replies: 9717
- Views: 1893942
Re: Opal Discussion and Observations
So it's the effective end of the weekly ticket. (Which was what the original 8 then free, later 8 then 50% replaced) I guess not quite as most who travel that much will still be protected by the weekly $50/25 cap. Only going to impact a small number of people who primarily take short or off peak jou...
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 11:23 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Re: Ferry Observations 2023
- Replies: 178
- Views: 24765
Re: Ferry Observations 2023
announced earlier this year that there would be Opal integration for the Lane Cove ferry service later this year as part of the new contract. I guess that is still to come. This 'further integration' ? https://inthecove.com.au/2023/04/10/additional-peak-hour-service-for-the-lane-cove-ferry-new-time...
- Mon Sep 11, 2023 10:56 am
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Transport Administration Amendment (Transport Entities) Act
- Replies: 79
- Views: 24676
Re: Transport Administration Amendment (Transport Entities) Act
Hard to feel sorry for a guy who's clipping the ticket and just sub-leasing the site.jpp42 wrote:‘It’s unjust’: Controversial rail corporation charges tenants thousands extra
I think most people would have an expectation that our public entities should be charging commercial rent.
- Mon Sep 11, 2023 10:50 am
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: New Sydney and Outer Metro bus contracts (as from 2020)
- Replies: 2109
- Views: 218711
Re: New Sydney and Outer Metro bus contracts (as from 2020)
On the M services, I wonder whether Jo might go the other way and reinstate M services. Order some fresh new arctics, maybe even those uber-expensive pretending not to be a bus double-artics that Brisbane is getting. Afterall that was one of the major transport policies of the last Labor Govt, and i...
- Fri Sep 01, 2023 6:25 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Rail Observations 2023
- Replies: 521
- Views: 58351
Re: Rail Observations 2023
As for building locally, look at all the problems that have result in the Tangara Technology Update being basically cancelled.
Had they been built to exactly the same specs, the Union's would have used exactly the same tactics and we'd be in the same, just more expensive, mess.
Had they been built to exactly the same specs, the Union's would have used exactly the same tactics and we'd be in the same, just more expensive, mess.
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:50 am
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Sydney Metro West announced
- Replies: 517
- Views: 146216
Re: Sydney Metro West announced
But it's already deep.
It's passing below Darling Harbour.
Whatever you do post Hunter St it would still be below the ground level in Woolloomooloo.
It's passing below Darling Harbour.
Whatever you do post Hunter St it would still be below the ground level in Woolloomooloo.
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 1:33 am
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Sydney Metro West announced
- Replies: 517
- Views: 146216
Re: Sydney Metro West announced
Which of course comes back to the debate of whether this line needs to serve Central.
You'd go under the ED to have a station at Woolloomooloo, which given the large govt holding of old low rise but not heritage land in the area, would enable a station to probably pay for itself.
You'd go under the ED to have a station at Woolloomooloo, which given the large govt holding of old low rise but not heritage land in the area, would enable a station to probably pay for itself.
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 3:46 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Sydney Metro West announced
- Replies: 517
- Views: 146216
Re: Sydney Metro West announced
Consider how deep MetroWest will be.
Metro C&SW is well below T4 (escalator down from the T4 platform), and Metro West will be below that.
So it would easily go under the ED if say following a similar alignment to the T4 viaduct.
Metro C&SW is well below T4 (escalator down from the T4 platform), and Metro West will be below that.
So it would easily go under the ED if say following a similar alignment to the T4 viaduct.
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 10:24 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown
- Replies: 5325
- Views: 1046649
Re: Sydney Metro - Tallawong to Bankstown
I don't understand why they haven't extended this arrangement to the Airport stations. Removing the access fee from Green Square and Mascot only cost $4 million . Removing it from the airport stations would have cost $100 million. Suspect it's more than that these days as Mascot and Green Square us...
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 10:15 pm
- Forum: Discussion - Sydney / NSW
- Topic: New Sydney and Outer Metro bus contracts (as from 2020)
- Replies: 2109
- Views: 218711
Re: New bus contracts to drive improved services (as from 2020)
I mean the US is hardly the beacon of public transport worldwide.
Other than NY where the subway takes the major share, use of public transport in the US is pretty pathetic.
Other than NY where the subway takes the major share, use of public transport in the US is pretty pathetic.