Re: Re: IWLR stuff - ads, delays and special work.
  Tony Galloway

Token indeed. It doesn’t make up for the long wait at Darling Drive while no traffic passes, and it really only matches the phases for the road traffic that’s currently excluded.

Tony G


> On 25 Mar 2017, at 1:22 pm, 'Brian'bblunt@... [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:

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> A token contribution is that the Sussex St and George St lights are coordinated. Although that is probably negated by the long wait to actually get them in sync

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> The biggest slowdown at the city end is the four (five if inbound) sets of traffic signals without priority, where trams are invariably stopped, with George St (one traffic lane at present) and Darling Drive (mostly worksite access) the most egregious offenders. A clear run with signal priority would knock a couple of minutes at least off covering Central to Haymarket.

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> But as we know, that’d set an unwelcome precedent for CSELR - as far as RMS is concerned anyway.

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> Tony G

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> On 25 Mar 2017, at 12:45 pm,prescottt@... mailto:prescottt@ymail.com [TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@... mailto:TramsDownUnder@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> Thanks Tony. It doesn't matter where on the line the delay was, the Dulwich Hill arrangements don't assist recovery. They can spit them out of Central quickly enough, though I'm sure having two stops now slows it down a little.

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> Though I can’t say for sure, this delay seems to have been at the city end. If there was anything posted on the website it had disappeared down the Memory Hole before I was able to check.

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