2.5 ppsm on Sydney buses and trains is an extremely low standard when the norm is at least 4 ppsm. Even 5 or 6 are acceptable overseas.

The point is that Sydney's trains and buses suffer from too few doors and extremely poor passenger flow/distribution, so I'm not surprised that that's the figure they go for. What's missing in this uninformed article is that the trams, as an up-to-date European design, are much better-designed for passenger handling and will have no problems with 4 ppsm or higher. Sydney's European-designed metro trains will similarly be much better.

So many just don't seem to get it. Sydney's transport is simply being dragged back into the effective high-capacity world that it vacated in 1961.

Where's that PB report for Waverley Council on the Bondi corridor up to?

Tony P

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