As I read the item and 25 reader comments, I had three different solutions in mind:
* Lower the existing tram lines, and add a Peel St to Royal Pde link, creating more flexibility.
* Use a Portuguese solution: all trams feed into a surface tram roundabout, single track, allowing anything to exit anywhere. That reduces some of the conflicting moves, and could create space to smooth the road flows.
* Combine the two: a Portuguese layout, but below road level. The centre of the roundabout would be open to the sky (no criticisms of becoming a bogan urinal as at Gold Coast), with an even taller flagpole; all pedestrian moves across the various roads would be at low level (as in Japan, or outside Budapest Keleti pu or outside Cape Town railway station). There is no requirement to take road lanes to make platform stops: they are on the circle.

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor