With online betting mug punters don’t even have to get off their couches, they can lose all they want in the convenience of their own homes (while they still have one).

That, and other off track betting like in pubs, clubs and TABs has killed the sort of mass attendance that racecourses used to attract.

Tony

> On 4 Nov 2023, at 19:05, 'Geoff Olsen' via TramsDownUnder tramsdownunder@...> wrote:

>

> Well of course one must remember that only poor people use public transport old boy. Not poor before they enter the course but after?

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> Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Light rail ready to roll at Royal Randwick

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> On 3/11/23 13:28, TP wrote:

>> The platform with the entrance gates shown in the photo was still

>> there when the light rail project began, together with the space to

>> reinstate a loop through it to and from Anzac Pde. It would have had

>> the ability to throughput far more people than the stub shunt that was

>> built on the other side of Alison Road,

>

>

> Didn't the original concept for the LR line down Allison Rd have the

> stop on the racecourse side, but the racecourse objected to the LR

> blocking the front of their main entrance (they wanted to build a motel

> or something that would have required a grand road entrance or something

> to that effect.

>

>

> The racecourse them selves objected to a more sensible design for the LR

> stop. They would have had 'kittens' over the idea of a loop adjacent to

> their site!.

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