Full report is here.
https://mckellinstitute.org.au/research/reports/getting-melbourne-moving/
Some of it is nonsensical, IMHO.
On 18 August 2017 at 12:52, Richard Youltressteleg@...
[TramsDownUnder] TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:
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> I should have made it clear that the trams already have transponders and
> have been thus equipped for at least 30 years.
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> Programming traffic lights to actually respond to the radio signals
> emitted is the failure.
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> Regards,
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> On 18 Aug 2017, at 8:04 am,prescottt@... [TramsDownUnder] <
>TramsDownUnder@...> wrote:
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> "Melburnians' disdain for bus travel in unrivalled in Australian capital
> cities."
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> Has the journalist noticed that in Melbourne, the street transport task is
> shared between trams and buses unlike every other Australian capital city
> (except Adelaide and Sydney where the tram patronage is still too tiny to
> have a bearing on overall figures)? Naturally, Melbourne will have a
> smaller proportion using buses, doh.
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> Except for Perth, Melbourne buses have actually had the strongest
> patronage growth and recovery of any capital city bus system in Australia
> when measured from the national public transport low-point of the 1970-80s.
> The main problem seems to be that their organisation by the state agency
> doesn't seem to be very good, an endemic problem with bus systems generally
> along the east coast.
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> And then not mentioning transponders for trams. Another Age journalistic
> fail.
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> Tony P
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> ---InTramsDownUnder@..., <tressteleg@...> wrote :
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> It is notable that firstly trams are basically ignored, but the report
> recommends equipping buses to trigger traffic lights, something which the
> trams so desperately need.
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> http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/the-slowest-street-
> in-melbournes-cbd-three-ways-to-get-us-moving-faster-20170815-gxwn87.html
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> Regards,
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