Dudley,
Photo flipped as requested,
Regards
John Wayman
To:TramsDownUnder@...
From:transitconsult@...
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 18:16:50 +1100
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Gold Coast LR Project
John, is it easy to reverse the image from left to right or vice versa? If the station name is on a glass panel, and intended to be read from the other direction, it would seem to be a bit awkward as the other side there appears to be a continuous sun-shelter, which would prevent people under it observing the name.
Puzzled!
Regards
Dudley Horscroft
----- Original Message -----
From: John Hudson
To:TramsDownUnder@...
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Gold Coast LR Project
On 2/03/2011 8:24 PM,prescottt@... wrote:
> --- InTramsDownUnder@..., Richard YOUL<tressteleg@...> wrote:
>> The attached image was just received from an official update.
>>
>> It shows the Light Rail station at Griffith University, and is in fact an underground station on top of a hill.
>>
>> Sorry about the quality. It was only a tiny image to start with.
>>
> They'll learn. It will become a mugger's paradise and giant pissoir requiring the cost of security/staff.
>
> The beauty of light rail is its simplicity - including stops on the surface in public view and no requirement for staffing (not to mention escalators, lifts and all that).
>
> Let me guess, Gold Coast is being designed by consultants who know nothing about trams.
>
> Tony P
>
Welcome to the 21st century, up here many busway stations have lifts,
etc so why shouldn't a tramway?
This will be a busy station which will serve a large new hospital and
university, as you can see it's not entirely underground, but will be
under a four way intersection, and the tracks will cross underground to
the other side of the roadway here as well. All other stations are at
ground level.
http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/image_content/transport/unversity-hospital-station-large.JPG
At least any mug-ees, if there are any, won't have far to go to the
hospital.
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John Hudson
Brisbane