Comments on: Sydney CBD Metro Faces Stumbling Block http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/04/15/sydney-cbd-metro-faces-stumbling-block/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:19:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Hunt http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/04/15/sydney-cbd-metro-faces-stumbling-block/#comment-28437 David Hunt Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:29:19 +0000 http://thetransportpolitic.com/?p=1957#comment-28437 For the sake of us all, let's hope the Keneally Labor Government will reassess the dilemma over the expensive CBD Metro. The CBD Metro is just not worth it. For anyone. Let's solve our problems in Sydney without adding to them. As someone working for one of the businnesses that will be destroyed by the CBD Metro, I wait with nail biting time until the Premiers announcement next week. The businesses also wait in Pyrmont and the public also waits. Also will the public still have to bail out the Sydney City Council, owners of the Woolworths Building in Park Street to the tune of 500 million? David Hunt Rozelle For the sake of us all, let’s hope the Keneally Labor Government will reassess the dilemma over the expensive CBD Metro. The CBD Metro is just not worth it. For anyone. Let’s solve our problems in Sydney without adding to them. As someone working for one of the businnesses that will be destroyed by the CBD Metro, I wait with nail biting time until the Premiers announcement next week. The businesses also wait in Pyrmont and the public also waits. Also will the public still have to bail out the Sydney City Council, owners of the Woolworths Building in Park Street to the tune of 500 million?

David Hunt
Rozelle

]]> By: switchingmodes http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/04/15/sydney-cbd-metro-faces-stumbling-block/#comment-962 switchingmodes Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:25:28 +0000 http://thetransportpolitic.com/?p=1957#comment-962 This sounds very similar to the San Francisco Transbay Terminal issues that have been brought up recently, at least as far as the dis-coordination problems. I have posted an article on how better planning with this project could produce a better result. It is available <a HREF="http://switchingmodes.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/why-the-transbay-terminal-two-station-solution-is-flawed/" rel="nofollow">here</A>. This sounds very similar to the San Francisco Transbay Terminal issues that have been brought up recently, at least as far as the dis-coordination problems. I have posted an article on how better planning with this project could produce a better result. It is available here.

]]> By: Tony Bailey http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/04/15/sydney-cbd-metro-faces-stumbling-block/#comment-961 Tony Bailey Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:23:05 +0000 http://thetransportpolitic.com/?p=1957#comment-961 Indeed, And there is a very easy way of doing it, for about the same price as the Metro- Put in the two extra tracks from Chatswood to North Sydney, for which there is room, take back the Cahill Expressway and convert back to a railway, tunnel from Wynyard through Central and Redfern and exit at about Erskineville and suddenly many extra peak hour paths through the City.l Doing this opens up lots of other possibilities - restore the planned Epping to Parramatta link, build the North West Line, build a junction at Roseville underground and make the badly needed connection to the Warringah Peninsula Indeed,

And there is a very easy way of doing it, for about the same price as the Metro-

Put in the two extra tracks from Chatswood to North Sydney, for which there is room, take back the Cahill Expressway and convert back to a railway, tunnel from Wynyard through Central and Redfern and exit at about Erskineville and suddenly many extra peak hour paths through the City.l

Doing this opens up lots of other possibilities -

restore the planned Epping to Parramatta link, build the North West Line, build a junction at Roseville underground and make the badly needed connection to the Warringah Peninsula

]]> By: Yonah Freemark http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/04/15/sydney-cbd-metro-faces-stumbling-block/#comment-960 Yonah Freemark Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:13:18 +0000 http://thetransportpolitic.com/?p=1957#comment-960 Tony - Thanks for your comment - I may have pushed forward a little too quickly with this info. That said, I still think that a new CityRail line makes a lot more sense for the corridor than an independent metro line. Any comments? Tony -
Thanks for your comment – I may have pushed forward a little too quickly with this info. That said, I still think that a new CityRail line makes a lot more sense for the corridor than an independent metro line. Any comments?

]]> By: Tony Bailey http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2009/04/15/sydney-cbd-metro-faces-stumbling-block/#comment-959 Tony Bailey Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:03:10 +0000 http://thetransportpolitic.com/?p=1957#comment-959 This report has some alarmingingly incorrect statements in it and is unsourced. I suspect that you have been "shafted". See the response at- http://www.sydneymetro.nsw.gov.au/news/latest_news/media_statement/ This report has some alarmingingly incorrect statements in it and is unsourced. I suspect that you have been “shafted”.

See the response at-

http://www.sydneymetro.nsw.gov.au/news/latest_news/media_statement/

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