I note the announcement also includes a major commitment to electric buses.
Melbourne will become the easiest city in Australia to get run over without
warning!

Tony P

On Tuesday, 24 November 2020 at 22:37:45 UTC+11heg...@... wrote:

> If the plans recently discussed, to close Elizabeth St to motor traffic

> south of Bourke St (as Swanston St is already) go ahead, then traffic

> exiting the little streets (Flinders Lane or Little Collins St) cannot turn

> left at Elizabeth St, nor at Swanston St. For Little Bourke St (westbound

> one-way traffic) and Little Lonsdale St (eastbound one-way traffic) at

> Elizabeth St it would be possible.

>

> Hal Cain

>

> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:08 PM TP histor...@...> wrote:

>

>> The Sydney solution is that the Little streets are no longer crossroads.

>> You can only turn left into them and left out of them. It's like kerbside

>> parking. You have to bite the bullet and prioritise public transport.

>>

>> Tony P

>>

>> On Tuesday, 24 November 2020 at 20:09:36 UTC+11 Mal Rowe wrote:

>>

>>> On 24/11/2020 19:23, Anthony Dudley Horscroft wrote:

>>> > This still, unfortunately, means that traffic can cross the little

>>> > streets to block the north south tram traffic, but it should be

>>> > possible to adjust the traffic priority such that the little street

>>> > traffic is held up whenever a tram needs to arrive or depart the tram

>>> > stop.

>>>

>>> See my earlier analysis of the issue at:

>>> https://tdu.to/m/271414/re-e-class-progress

>>>

>>> Yes, it is the 'Little Streets' that are the challenge. How would you

>>> propose that the cross traffic in these streets cross over the platforms

>>> at the tram stops?

>>>

>>> Mal Rowe - not expecting coupled Citadis trams in Melbourne anytime soon

>>>

>>>

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