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Passenger trains in the Adelaide Hills
Eden Hills still has a train service, but Long Gully isn’t so lucky. The Adelaide Hills region has one railway line passing through it, being the main interstate standard gauge line to Melbourne, used by many daily freight trains as well as GSR’s The Overland passenger train to Melbourne three times per week. This area now... »
They need a train
n light of Riccardo's recent post Money for Jam: Contra-peak traffics and encouraging them I have had some... »
Overcoming the drawbacks of buses – Bus Rapid Transit
Bus services are often seen by the travelling public, policy makers and planners alike as an inferior... »
Summary of the event – Transport: Visions for a sustainable future
Professor William Mitchell – Director MIT Design Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wants to “democratize” public transport. Judging by later comments I think he was getting at “transport equality”, where everyone, everywhere should have equal access to public transport. Focus on urban personal mobility. In this case, mainly battery-electric ultralight foldable vehicles (2 seats), although other... »
Conflict between freight and passenger rail traffic in Sydney
C class meets S-set at Berowra on the congested Main North line. Sydney has a small metropolitan freight railway network with a main line from Port Botany to Sefton, and a branch from Dulwich Hill to Rozelle that has become irrelevant in recent years, except for a train servicing a flour mill which will cease by... »
Beyond the Murray
Sorry guys – I agree we do need to start broadening out our topics beyond Melbourne though I realise that is what most people are familiar with. I will start a series looking at urban rail transport in Brisbane which will tie in with the recent release of the report discussing an Inner City... »
Our problem in a nutshell
I posted this on Smart Passengers forums and Riccardo invited me to share it here for a wider audience. Problem: Transport planning in Victoria so far has largely been based on each different service being provided by one technology, for instance urban transit with trams, metro transport with electric trains and interurban transport with diesel trains. On... »