[Peakoil] Peakoil Digest, Vol 80, Issue 18 - Metro, not a light rail system

[Henry Hatch]

The article was actually proposing a Metro network rather than light 
rail. I have come to the conclusion a faster system rather than 
conventional light rail is needed to be competitive with car transport 
across Canberra.

Transport for Canberra's lightest idea of running a rapid transit system 
down the outside lane of Northbourne Avenue - 
http://www.transport.act.gov.au/studies_projects/northbourne_study.html 
-  is likely to be a failure as left turning traffic will slow the 
system. They also propose sharing the lane with stopping buses. The net 
result is the 'rapid' system will be forced to be slower than car 
traffic on the road. Plans for increased density along the transport 
corridors is likely to result in slower public transport between the 
towns and longer trip times across the network - already way too long.

A Metro system running up to 100km/h or more and probably underground 
through the city areas is probably the best way of building a public 
transport system that can match car transport across most of the city. 
The obvious first two lines are ACTION's Blue Rapid and Red Rapid routes 
(more or less).

Henry Hatch

On 28/01/2012 11:00 PM, peakoil-request at act-peakoil.org wrote:
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:37:17 +1100
> From: "Alex Pollard"<alex-po at trevbus.org>
> Subject: [Peakoil] Light Rail piece in today's CT
> To: peakoil at act-peakoil.org
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> In today's Canberra Times Forum lift-out there is a piece by a couple of
> architects arguing for a light rail network in the ACT. There is a nice
> diagram of their proposed network.
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> Alex Pollard
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