The difference that a line speed of 20 km/h vs 30 km/h in that environment
makes is piddling, though of course 30 km/h would free things up a little.
It's far more those other issues that cumulatively slow everything down.

Tony P

On Sunday, 22 January 2023 at 11:39:19 UTC+11mat...@...
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> It's not surprising that the L2/L3 are slow given almost the entire length

> of George Street is now pedestrianised and subject to a 20km/hr speed

> limit. The southern Brickfield Hill section used to be 40km/hr until the

> city council pedestrianised that too - so another km of the track got

> snail's pace speed limited.

> TonyP will mention the acceleration of his favourite European system as an

> example that top speed doesn't matter. Still, we are limited here too - all

> stops on all 3 lines are 20kmn approach and departure limited. No flying in

> under hard braking and taking off at maximum power.

> And then there is the traffic light priority or lack thereof. It's gotten

> a bit better since the L2 opened, but it looks like they have to fight for

> every intersection. with the traffic planners still prioritizing the number

> of vehicles through the intersections not the number of people. So our big

> monster coupled sets count as ONE vehicle in their throughput calculations

> it seems.

> Even down AZAC Pde watch the traffic lights - the shared bus/tram corridor

> - the bus light goes green but the tram light stays red - the tram light

> doesn't clear until it sees the beacon from the approaching tram - so the

> trams slow approaching all the intersections to incase the lights don't

> clear before they reach them - even though they can see the bus light IS

> clear.

>

>

> On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 at 10:30, Avrom Shtern adiron...@...> wrote:

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>> Very interesting article.

>>

>> Thanks for sharing Greg.

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>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 5:27 p.m. Greg Sutherland <

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>>> https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/22/snail-rail-why-are-trams-in-australian-cities-running-slower-than-they-were-100-years-ago?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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