On 22/3/19 9:23 am, 'Richard Youl' via TramsDownUnder wrote:
> Yep. You may get away with sardine cans in Europe but not here.


They don't get away with it Europe either. The 'sandine can' trains are
used in the dense city centres on routes much shorter and with closer
station spacing than being proposed for Sydney. For suburban routes, the
use of double deck stock is spreading. It used to be only Sydney, Paris
and Moscow had double-deck EMU trains. Now dozens of cities have them on
their suburban routes, often complemented with high capacity metro's in
the city centre - and often commuters have to change trains off the
suburban units to the metro to complete their journey in the city core.

Sydney's proposals are patterned on Asia, not Europe. Our style and
pattern of high rise development with huge towers closely spaced with a
low amount of open park space around them is also modeled after Asia,
not Europe. Some of what's been done to Sydney would have locals out
with pitchforks and flaming torches protesting in Europe.