NSW Long Term Transport Plan
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby Alien27 » Tue Oct 09, 2012 3:37 pm
From there though, the rest stinks. Turning Parramatta road into a southern cross drive would be a massive disgrace. They need to bite the bullet and do it properly, charge us all a new tax or something but it needs to go completely under ground. The entire corridor has massive potential and they will destroy it having a open cut depressed road deciding the two sides of the road. It will also free up more space for perhaps a future tram or light rail line along with bike paths, public spaces, etc...
The public transport parts of the plan also stink. They are a band aid solution to carry us over till the problem gets so bad that short sighted Sydney siders get forced to see the blindingly obvious that we need to completely re think out rail system and re draw it from scratch. The failing here is not the government but ours as citizens. We make it imposable for any government to 1. borrow a heap of money and run a deficit to finance such projects or 2.to raise taxes or levies to fund such a system. Everyone likes to blame government but as the saying goes, you get what you vote for and our short sightedness is getting us surprise, surprise short sighted governments.
Borrow the money, raise some taxes impose a new levies and build a proper metro system like every other major city in the world thrives on. Small, fast, regular, single decker trains with heaps of entry and exit points. Its going to cost a motza and take 50years to pay back but it is the only real option and Sydney would be soooo much better of for it.
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby Alex Simmons/RST » Tue Oct 09, 2012 4:50 pm
One could argue that by doing nothing, the market will deliver these outcomes anyway.Kuufu wrote:So in summary, either change the method of transportation or change the destination. Two easiest methods without major infrastructure projects.
i.e. people and businesses will eventually choose to move to more efficient/better locations. I have to admit that cycling from near central Sydney has got less inviting over the last couple of decades, to the point that I may consider living elsewhere.
I'm not saying this is the right solution, just that it is one way to solve the problems.
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby mikesbytes » Tue Oct 09, 2012 7:34 pm
Now what was in the plan for rail infrastructure...
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby Sydguy » Tue Oct 09, 2012 9:38 pm
More revenue is funnelled into maintaining them, more people die on them and the congestion fills them up. It is proven to fail.
So lets try the opposite, rip lanes out. Reduce your roads budget overnight, reduce death, reduce heart disease...
Make it expensive to privately register a motor vehicle, phase out internal combustion engines gradually over 10 years. People can put themselves on the 'do not drive' register and get a $7,000 bonus. We can call it the First Home Owners Grant to confuse the Daily Telegraph.
50% of people living in Sydney are in Strata, this is increasing. Public transport is the way to go, getting more people onto it means you can run more services and ticket revenue is up. We going to get there via the free market but we should speed things up.
Embrace change.
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby Snow Leopard » Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:43 pm
Apart from the distance, cycling rates are easy to increase. All you have to do is make cycling more convenient than driving. This means well developed cycling infrastructure, with traffic light timing and priority optimised for bicycle travel rather than car travel. This is what they did in Copenhagen, parts of the Netherlands etc and it works.
Secondly other things like lowering residential speedlimits (first to 40km/h, then 30km/h) will both improve safety and increase usage of other means of transport.
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby diggler » Sat Oct 13, 2012 2:28 pm
For what it's worth, I made a comment saying we need more separated bike paths, cycling on footpaths, encourage electric bikes and folding electric bikes. Of course they will ignore it, but at least I made the effort to send them something.
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby g-boaf » Sat Oct 13, 2012 7:51 pm
I get a seat every day. I do feel for those poor people on the Western line who jam into those sardine cans. Freezing in winter, boiling hot in summer time.mikesbytes wrote:Catching the train today at peak hour, it was ridiculously overcrowded. Need more peak hour trains. However the line is already at capacity, so no more trains without more capacity.
Now what was in the plan for rail infrastructure...
I agree totally with that. With the anti-cycling scare campaigns, you'll never get a lot of people riding on the roads at all. People are scared of being assaulted by car drivers, or terrorised by certain Channel 9 tabloid TV shows. Even though that is rare, the number of times people get deliberately run off the road or harassed by car drivers is a big deterrent to people using cycling for transportation.diggler wrote:I like the idea of more tolling. If you want to use your car, you should pay for the privilege. The money could be used to fund more public transport.
For what it's worth, I made a comment saying we need more separated bike paths, cycling on footpaths, encourage electric bikes and folding electric bikes. Of course they will ignore it, but at least I made the effort to send them something.
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby diggler » Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:30 am
I don't blame people for being afraid of Sydney traffic. I think we need separated bike paths and cycling on footpaths.g-boaf wrote:I get a seat every day. I do feel for those poor people on the Western line who jam into those sardine cans. Freezing in winter, boiling hot in summer time.mikesbytes wrote:Catching the train today at peak hour, it was ridiculously overcrowded. Need more peak hour trains. However the line is already at capacity, so no more trains without more capacity.
Now what was in the plan for rail infrastructure...
I agree totally with that. With the anti-cycling scare campaigns, you'll never get a lot of people riding on the roads at all. People are scared of being assaulted by car drivers, or terrorised by certain Channel 9 tabloid TV shows. Even though that is rare, the number of times people get deliberately run off the road or harassed by car drivers is a big deterrent to people using cycling for transportation.diggler wrote:I like the idea of more tolling. If you want to use your car, you should pay for the privilege. The money could be used to fund more public transport.
For what it's worth, I made a comment saying we need more separated bike paths, cycling on footpaths, encourage electric bikes and folding electric bikes. Of course they will ignore it, but at least I made the effort to send them something.
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby AndrewBurns » Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:44 am
I injured myself a bit on the weekend and want to take a few days off before riding again to recover so I'm driving from Ashfield to Macquarie Park but if I wanted to take a train it would be either two or three trains (Ashfield-Strathfield-Epping-Macquarie park or Ashfield-Central-Macquarie park). If I wanted to take a bus it would be two buses, one of which follows the same route that I drive which is a traffic nightmare and would probably take well over an hour to go the 15.6km.
I've been working there for a bit over 2 years now and the traffic has become noticeably worse over that time as more businesses move in and nothing happens to the transport infrastructure. At least now that we're getting into summer I'm looking forward to being able to ride more often because even though my bicycle route is about 8.5km longer than the car route it's often faster.
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby alf » Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:45 am
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/10/14 ... ity-biking
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby diggler » Wed Oct 17, 2012 1:46 am
I wouldn't be so confident. Solar electricity panels are getting cheaper all the time. Electric cars are getting better. Presumably batteries are getting better. I think people will just swap their petrol cars for electric cars.alf wrote:I think it is only a matter of time before fuel costs fix the problem anyway.....
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/10/14 ... ity-biking
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby mikesbytes » Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:57 am
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
Postby Sydguy » Wed Oct 17, 2012 1:47 pm
What gets to me about this and I am NOT having a go at anyone, is that behaviour like this does not promote positive change.
We need people to ride to and from work where it is remotely possible, where it is not catch public transport. If we get more patronage on PT we will get more PT.
Unfortunately so many people drive and vote, so we will waste billions on roads that are totally unnecessary and lead to more waste. The repairs, the deaths, the congestion, the pollution... it all costs.
If everyone woke up to themselves one day and all headed to their local bus stop or train station or jumped on a bike it present a huge problem to the NSW (Australian) government and they would need to fix it by the next election or be relegated to the minor league.
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Re: NSW Long Term Transport Plan
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