The rail line to the airport will be tied in after the improvement of the Dandenong line - improved trains and improved frequencies.
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What I don't understand, is why can't they in the meanwhile have a service between MEL and Sunshine, with Pax changing trains at Sunshine. There is enough platforms there and it wouldn't disrupt other services across the network. Don't people from Eastern suburbs know how to change trains?
Build it standard gauge and avoid the broad gauge chaos, it then runs into Spencer Street (Southern Cross just doesn't do it for me).
Sunshine has the standard gauge.
Matt
PS, the end of the tram systems isn't far away, why not train tram and bus options?
Are you talking about the HEX or the Piccadilly line?For Trams, baggage is a problem. Just use the LHR to London train in peak time. Or London Bristol on a late friday afternoon, packed, and no where for the Luggage.
Would be nice, but I don't see it happening. While something like the HKG Airport Express, KLIA Express or Narita Skyliner would be nice, we'd be more likely to end up with something like the SIN metro line or JFK's A/E trains+Air Train.In the end it will be an extension of an existing line. I have asked why they will not consider a separate line direct to Tulla, with no stops.
The Shanghai MagLev doesn't even go out of Pudong. It doesn't even get you into the financial district, much less past the Huangpu River and to the city center.My personal choice is the MagLev like in Shanghai, what a ride. You would have fast and I mean FAST travel to Tulla, as well as being a tourist attraction.
They don't know how to listen to the people they claim to work for and think people vote them in, rather then people voting out the other mob. Between that and all the NIMBY idiots, things just don't happen.Why are Pollie's so lacking in imagination, where is the vision in this country of ours.
Are you talking about the HEX or the Piccadilly line?
I don't see them paying to extend the 59 tram line from Essendon Fields/Airport West up Melrose Drive to Tullamarine.
I'm talking about baggage during peak hours, we had a hell of a time LHR to london, no where for our luggage. All racks were full
Would be nice, but I don't see it happening. While something like the HKG Airport Express, KLIA Express or Narita Skyliner would be nice, we'd be more likely to end up with something like the SIN metro line or JFK's A/E trains+Air Train.
The Shanghai MagLev doesn't even go out of Pudong. It doesn't even get you into the financial district, much less past the Huangpu River and to the city center.
I am suggesting the idea of fast rail, instead of snail rail. And yes it doesn't go from the centre, but still it the best ride.
They don't know how to listen to the people they claim to work for and think people vote them in, rather then people voting out the other mob. Between that and all the NIMBY idiots, things just don't happen.
The people who do have imagination and plans to do things, don't have the capital (either political or $$) to make them happen.
In the end it will be an extension of an existing line. I have asked why they will not consider a separate line direct to Tulla, with no stops. My personal choice is the MagLev like in Shanghai, what a ride. You would have fast and I mean FAST travel to Tulla, as well as being a tourist attraction. Why are Pollie's so lacking in imagination, where is the vision in this country of ours.
From Southern Cross to Footscray it would take at least 10-15 min, 20-25 min Sunshine.. For it to get to MEL in 25 minutes, it would have to probably be express with maybe only stops in North Melbourne, Footscray and Sunshine.
Melbourne is the only airport among the world's 50 busiest without a rail link or one on the way, other than five heavily car-dependent American cities.
A new analysis is to be released by the Public Transport Users Association as part of an event they are staging on Friday. It shows Melbourne – with 28 million passengers passing through it each year – is the only Australian airport in the top 100 without a rail link.
The other top 50 cities without an airport rail link are Las Vegas, Houston, Charlotte, Orlando and Detroit.
Athens has just over half the number of passengers as Melbourne but has a rail link; Oslo with a population of more than 600,000 and Salt Lake City with just under 200,000 residents have rail links. Melbourne's population is 4.4 million.
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