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written_ficton wrote:

Toottoot wrote:

robbage wrote:Why not... it worked for North Haverbrook

LOL!!

written_ficton wrote:This is what Perth needs, trams.

Why would trams be better than the CAT bus system??? I would think that the CAT buses are a lot cheaper than trams. The city already has a traffic problem that was raised recently and wouldn't putting trams into the mix surely slow traffic even more as cars have to wait for them to pass?

No

I don't follow your argument.

Toottoot wrote:

written_ficton wrote:

Toottoot wrote:........wouldn't putting trams into the mix surely slow traffic even more as cars have to wait for them to pass?

No

I don't follow your argument.

That's understandable. No is fairly light on details.

I think WF is getting at the fact that more public transport/trams = less single person cars = less congestion.

Transperth offer buses to and from the airport. I caught one to the city last November when I flew in to Perth Airport.

Yeah the 37, which takes ages to reach the airport, runs through residential and has a crap timetable...

You need a good 50seater, running every 15mins in peak, 30mins offpeak [even more in rush hour] to say Wellington bus station from BOTH the Domestic & international...

+1

a train system would be even better...


"Welcome to Perth. If you can get a taxi from this point on then you can explore the rest of the crapola city we have with shops that are shut on Sundays and our fancy new ferris wheel".

Don't mind me. I read http://www.theworstofperth.com daily. It's a great blog and a great laugh.

Well of course, there's been the plan for a branch to the airport coming off the Midland line between Bayswater and Ashfield for as long as I can remember, but nothing's happened yet ... which is also not unusual

Zebedee wrote:Well of course, there's been the plan for a branch to the airport coming off the Midland line between Bayswater and Ashfield for as long as I can remember, but nothing's happened yet ... which is also not unusual

gOOD gREIF,

You dont need a heavy rail system, light rail or buses will do fine

If you want shops open on Sundays, move to where there are shops open on Sundays!
Yep, I was one of the two thirds in the referendum

Perth, 2 hours and 2 decades behind........

How did we get here? We were discussing trains getting stuck and now we're ripping into shopping hours.

I come from the eastern states, grew up in Sydney then Canberra. Every city is different. Perth does feel a little strange and old to me but that's part of the charm and I'd hate to see that lost by indiscriminant development.

Having said that, it does need dedicated CHEAP public transport to and from the airport. Whether this be a fleet of dedicated buses or light rail or heavy rail, doesn't matter but I suspect the bus fleet would be cheaper to start with.

written_ficton wrote:gOOD gREIF,

You dont need a heavy rail system, light rail or buses will do fine

Some people said buses to Mandurah was all that was required too

I'd love to see a regular rail service to the airport, although now with the discussions about making it just a single international and domestic terminal, I suspect any plans that might be on the table would be shelved again until they know what they're doing with all of that

One would think that in the long term overall plan of joining the two airports together to make a new "super terminal" that some kind of rail system would be included in the project... oh hang on, this is Perth we're talking about right?

Don't mind me, I'm just being cheeky and I'm too lazy to find the cheeky emoticon.

Aparantly an "incident" at the Glendalough train station this morning will cause alot of train delays apparantly - see here --> http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx? ... ntID=33869


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Do you mean this one, body found? http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx? ... tID=129378

yorky wrote:Do you mean this one, body found? http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx? ... tID=129378

Yeah.. pretty sad though...
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gkoutlis wrote:Aparantly an "incident" at the Glendalough train station this morning will cause alot of train delays apparantly - see here --> http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx? ... ntID=33869


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In the correct article..

is not expected to cause disruptions to train services.