They are the multi-billion dollar projects that could transform Sydney transport, but there's mounting speculation that the Parramatta metro and the Bankstow...

ALP doing what the ALP does best.

Looking to can infrastructure that’s almost completed and desperately needed for our housing crisis. A decade later and there doesn’t seem to be any fresh ideas from their previous incarnation.

  • surreptitiouswalkEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The fastest currently is 25 mins. Over 23km. That’s less than 60km/h average.

    I would argue this is due to the clusterfuck that’s the approach to Strathfield station and the stretch of tracks between Strathfield and Central. You would get more speed if the lines going across those sections are decoupled, and work is underway to do just that.

    That would reduce the dwell time and the trains will have better acceleration and deceleration.

    The point of this feature is for transit systems with frequent and close stops, which is more stations.

    The last thing we need is for stations to be skipped like they do currently. That’s how we get lopsided development. Everyone wants to live where the trains stop and then areas where the trains skip gets neglected.

    I’m not saying do it now, I’m saying do it after the metro comes online. But I could make the same argument for having metro line that’s sparsely spaced.

    But the general point I’m making is, heavy rail was always designed to move lots of people over long distances, and metros are designed to move few people over short distances. Somehow we’re building it back to front. We shouldn’t do that.