NSW Long Term Transport Plan
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NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby mikesbytes » Tue Sep 04, 2012 5:18 pm
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby wombatK » Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:36 pm
from p316 (Chapter 9). Out of 366 pages, this is9.7 Cycling
Cycling represents both a transport mode and a
recreational activity. New measures relating to
cycling will focus on safety (particularly around
roads) and integration with public transport.
The measures we will pursue with regard to
cycling include:
•• Improved access to customer-friendly, bike
trip information.
•• A long term NSW Cycling Investment
Program to improve the planning,
management and delivery of cycleway capital
programs, supported by design solutions and
standards to reflect customer needs.
•• A program to increase and improve bike
parking at public transport interchanges.
•• A Connected Cycling Network that targets
investment in clearly defined cycleways within
a 5 kilometre radius of major urban centres in
the short term and 10 km radius of centres in
the longer term.
•• Improved partnerships to deliver local cycling
infrastructure, particularly in Greater Sydney,
including in Macquarie Park, Parramatta,
Liverpool and Penrith.
•• Enhanced cycling routes in regional centres to
increase the number of people who cycle.
all they could offer for cycling.
The other 365 pages is pie-in-the-sky dreaming from people who haven't a clue
about sustainable futures and think that tolls will answer every call.
Building tollways for the wealthy to get to their work/business is apparently
a vote winner. Wonder how long it will take them to figure out their workers
won't have the money to get there to staff the place ? Or are they just
going to dump a few containers out the back for them to live in -running
water, sewage etc.,. optional, but plentiful cheap grog to keep them thinking
they're happy ?
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us -Jerry Garcia
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby find_bruce » Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:02 pm
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby familyguy » Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:29 pm
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/transport-pla ... 25bkn.html
One of the comments was spot on: plan - funding = no plan at all.
Jim
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby find_bruce » Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:52 pm
Anyone else get the sense of deja moo, 2005 bike plan 2010 bike plan etc, all great ideas but with no funding, didn't happen.
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby longshanks » Wed Sep 05, 2012 1:26 pm
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby find_bruce » Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:12 pm
solving the gridlock: more roads
I think it was Mulger Bill who put it most poignently along the lines of combating congestion by building more roads is like tackling obesity by buying a bigger belt.
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby g-boaf » Wed Sep 05, 2012 7:44 pm
So yeah, I don't feel very confident about any of this. And if Clover loses out, those bike lanes are going to be gone.
Long term is a synonym sometimes for "lofty ambitions that will never go anywhere".
Will it be as long-term as the VFT project?
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby Mulger bill » Wed Sep 05, 2012 9:12 pm
Wish I could claim authorship over it Read it somewhere and loved it. My googlefu deserts me every time I try to find the originalfind_bruce wrote:I think it was Mulger Bill who put it most poignently along the lines of combating congestion by building more roads is like tackling obesity by buying a bigger belt.
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby mikesbytes » Wed Sep 05, 2012 9:13 pm
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby g-boaf » Wed Sep 05, 2012 11:21 pm
I also see there is a bus interchange plan being proposed to limit the number of buses in the city. That's a reasonable idea but it might struggle if the passenger loads are high. Already people complain about being left behind because the buses are already full.
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby Nobody » Wed Sep 05, 2012 11:56 pm
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby silentbutdeadly » Thu Sep 06, 2012 8:33 am
What they really mean:The measures we will pursue with regard to cycling include:
•• Improved access to customer-friendly, bike trip information.
•• A long term NSW Cycling Investment Program to improve the planning, management and delivery of cycleway capital programs, supported by design solutions and standards to reflect customer needs.
•• A program to increase and improve bike parking at public transport interchanges.
•• A Connected Cycling Network that targets investment in clearly defined cycleways within a 5 kilometre radius of major urban centres in the short term and 10 km radius of centres in the longer term.
•• Improved partnerships to deliver local cycling infrastructure, particularly in Greater Sydney, including in Macquarie Park, Parramatta, Liverpool and Penrith.
•• Enhanced cycling routes in regional centres to increase the number of people who cycle.
•• We'll make a website
•• We'll get a consultant to write a project plan and infrastructure guide
•• We'll buy more shipping containers to install at railway stations in Sydney
•• We'll give the project plan and infrastructure guide to local government and ask them to do something with it
•• As above with different wording to make it seem like we a doing more
•• Tacked on to the end because no-one wants to make regional centres feel left out even though they are
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby diggler » Sun Sep 09, 2012 1:12 pm
Do electric bikes or folding bikes on trains and buses have much role to play or am I just talking crap?
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby mikesbytes » Thu Oct 04, 2012 8:17 pm
Railways are pretty much ignored, the big looser being the exclusion of a second harbor bridge crossing
There's a small mention of bicycles somewhere, states there's an opportunity to put in some bike paths.
http://www.infrastructure.nsw.gov.au/me ... 120927.pdf (4Mb)
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby Strawburger » Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:01 pm
The gap between money they need and the money they have is quite large still!
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby Sydguy » Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:08 pm
NSW, backwards and transport is more suitable to the BS that is going on at the moment.
Very sad indeed, pander to the lowest common denominator.
JM
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby g-boaf » Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:14 am
Bike paths would be a good thing, even though a lot of people here appear to despise them and would, unless I'm mistaken, prefer they aren't built (though it could be some people playing devils advocate).mikesbytes wrote:The latest announcement is based around extending from Strathfield to Camperdown by digging up paramatta rd and sinking it. Then turns, tunnels and ends up at the Airport. Some of the existing motorway infrastructure gets extra lanes. All part of a master plan that links up all of the existing motorways by about 2030. The bulk of the funding is tolls, but there's still significant govt funding.
Railways are pretty much ignored, the big looser being the exclusion of a second harbor bridge crossing
There's a small mention of bicycles somewhere, states there's an opportunity to put in some bike paths.
http://www.infrastructure.nsw.gov.au/me ... 120927.pdf (4Mb)
I'd like to hope that this plan might go somewhere, but I suspect it's unlikely to be built unless they start tomorrow. I'm thinking there will be land acquisition needed, this will take a lot of effort, maybe some people won't want to sell up - in which case there is a big fight and the government would need to use heavy handed methods, which equals bad PR. Difficult.
Sydney remains a driving city because there are very powerful lobby groups with vested interests in making sure it remains that way. If you factor in motoring lobby groups and the one man Pedestrian Council (Harold Scruby and his fax-machine), that's a powerful block.biker jk wrote:The bureaucrat mumbled something about Sydney being a driving city and that this won't change in a hurry! Of course it won't change if more roads are being built! I'm simply stunned that the "answer" to traffic congestion from the bureaucrats remains to build more roads. It will be another huge waste of taxpayers money.
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby Sydguy » Fri Oct 05, 2012 4:46 pm
Lots of very important people work on Macquarie Street. None of them use public transport.
These large peasant carries would be unsightly and get in the way of their cars.
Cramming them into small, one way streets at the back of a train station where they are hard to find is a better outcome for me.
Thank you for your input but in future try to avoid being progressive the Daily Telegraph does not like it.
Kind regards
Barry Gay
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby g-boaf » Mon Oct 08, 2012 1:11 pm
I read now that they want to take some of the CBD rail network out of action so they can modify the platforms to take single-deck trains. Apparently the platforms are not suitable for single deck carriages. Any thoughts and lingering memories of "H" and "W" sets going through the City Circle with lights out are absolutely mistaken.
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby queequeg » Tue Oct 09, 2012 8:38 am
Yes, I must be mistaken about all those trips through wynyard tunnel on a dilapidated red rattler, doors wide open, sucking in the ozone!g-boaf wrote:Sydguy, that is priceless!
I read now that they want to take some of the CBD rail network out of action so they can modify the platforms to take single-deck trains. Apparently the platforms are not suitable for single deck carriages. Any thoughts and lingering memories of "H" and "W" sets going through the City Circle with lights out are absolutely mistaken.
I can't believe we're still making ridiculous plans. I lived in Tokyo many years ago and their train network is a huge collection of public and private lines all criss-crossing each other. To get to school I had to change trains twice. It was easy because trains came every few minutes, so by the time you walked from one platform to the next, the train was there.
I also marvelled at how in my local area they relocated the entire train line underground by excavating underneath the existing line while it remained operational, then switching over with no break in service!
Sydney has a crazy train network that funnels every line to the city. This is daft. In Tokyo they have a line that circles the entire metro, and a plethora of lines cutting through the circle. They also have an extensive subway network, and seem to be able to build new lines faster than our politicians can decide on what to include in the next plan!
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby Kuufu » Tue Oct 09, 2012 2:05 pm
1. Use current alternatives.
Things like your buses, trains, cycling. Even consider the possibility of reducing taxes for things like motorbikes and scooters. Or even cut some red tape for electric bicycles. If alot of people made the switch congestion would be heavily reduced.
2. Introduce incentives for new businesses to move.
The alternative CBDs are slowly improving, being Parramatta and soon Penrith. Give businesses incentives, say like tax breaks or bonuses or something for them to set up elsewhere instead of Sydney.
So in summary, either change the method of transportation or change the destination. Two easiest methods without major infrastructure projects.
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