Monday, April 28, 2008

Mebourne Public Transport

In the media in the last month - the shameless thing called melbourne public transport has been looked at and ideas of the how to improve the public transport has been reported.

Some of the things that I believe should be looked at in relation to melbourne transport is ;

  • every major shopping centre (knox, highpoint, southland, northland, etc.) should have a train station associated with it - and be on a line (none of them are) but they are all in major suburban areas (parking at the shopping centres is free so this needs to be increased and maybe introducing a system of providing free public transport.)
  • every university should have a train line into the city (except for uni's within CBD)
  • every hospital should have a train station to encourage visitors to take public tansport and not park.
  • introduce transit lines on the monash freeway -with cameras to fine people that do not have 2 or more individuals in a car - or have a larger vehicle lane - vehicles being over a certain tonage - i.e trucks and buses only.
  • A train line between fankston - portsea and frankston- dandendong
  • A train line to the Airport - with connections to the bundoora -werribee line, but then running into spencer st station(tullamarine and avalon) - this service will be more experience than the normal met line - and the skybus service will be removed. With the connection of both airport services to the werribee-bundoora line it will allow smoother connections between airports.
  • a train line between clayton uni and the bundoora unis
  • and maybe a train line between bundoora uni and werribee - going through sunbury.

this is only my ideas as a novice traveller on the melbourne transport.

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