Re: Re: Light rail builder makes pitch to design, finance light rail line on Parramatta Rd
  Matthew Geier

The remaining shop keepers on Paramatta Road are probably already writing letters demanding that no onstreet parking should be lost and that any reduction in parking will be the death of their business.

Maybe ALTRAC should maintain what they already have properly before offering to build more.

Despite all that massive concrete track bed, we are getting broken rails.


On 8/11/23 14:00, Mark Skinner wrote:
> Fabulous in the sense of a fable? What guarantees are there that it wouldn't go the same way as the George Street debacle? That's the problem.  As you say, the proposal is fabulous,  but can they achieve it?

>

> Mark Skinner

>

> On Wed, 8 Nov 2023, 11:23 am David McLoughlin, mcloughlin.dj@...> wrote:

>

> This seems a fabulous proposal which I hope gets taken up in some

> way. Parramatta Rd is a shame of Sydney.

>

> > it's unlikely to be able to proceed north of Central as all the

> CBD north-south routes are now fully accounted for.

>

> There is plenty of space in the George St traffic-light cycles to

> add another route.  There are substantial gaps between trams, and

> adding another route would be of substantial benefit to passengers.

>

> Pre-1958,  George St had many more tram movements than now, and a

> lot more motor traffic too.

>

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