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Posted by Deaks on Wed Jun 21 10:12:53 2006, in response to Re: Here comes Staten Is. Light Rail?, posted by Rail Blue on Tue Jun 20 15:36:01 2006. Not at all. Metrolink's Atrincham and Bury lines replaced infrequent, unreliable BR services with ten trams an hour - to the city centre, rather than either of the decrepit, out-of-the-way terminals served previously.And THERE is the reason why it's pathetic. Because of the street running section, it couldn't serve any of the lines out of Piccadilly. I suspect considerably more people using Metrolink are travelling to the city centre as a destination, rather than using it to connect to onward heavy-rail lines. Thus the majority benefit from the street running in the centre which deposits them closer to their eventual destination. In any case there's an easy transfer at both Piccadilly and particularly Victoria to main-line rail anyway. The Eccles Line is a screw-up because they had to build high platforms for it because they decided to bolt it onto Metrolink. It would have been better with kerb height boarding and segregation from Metrolink. Considering transport funding for projects that don't happen to be in the south east, I think that if the Eccles line hadn't been tacked on to Metrolink it wouldn't have happened at all. If it had been segregated with kerb-height boarding where would it have terminated? Short of building more, separate street running in the city centre it would have ended up on the fringe of the CBD, requiring passengers to make a transfer/walk to get to where they want to go. Passenger numbers are low enough as it is, if this was the scenario it would have never gotten off the ground. |
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