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Posted by Rail Blue on Wed Jun 21 13:14:49 2006, in response to Re: Here comes Staten Is. Light Rail?, posted by Deaks on Wed Jun 21 12:56:51 2006. Opinion based on a traditional railfan's viewpoint, nothing more. The real issue is not whether the line uses a traditional right-of-way to the edge of the CBD (i.e. Piccadilly) - it's the fact that it serves the heart of the city centre which I would assume is where the majority of passengers are heading.Again you are missing the point. Piccadilly is not the heart of the CBD, just as Oxford Road and Victoria aren't. Your argument therefore calls for Piccadilly services to be brought to a more central location just as much as it does Victoria and Oxford Road services. Metrolink is unable to do this because the section Victoria-Piccadilly is incompatible with the sections Piccadilly-Guide Bridge and Piccadilly-Cheadle Hulme (remember, it has already diverted through service off the MSJ&A). If you can provide evidence/proof to back up your assumption that the Metrolink will suffer from poor service until the end of time, thanks to a small amount of street running, feel free.... I have already explained the incompatibility. The Metrolink lines happen to be all right. It's all the other lines that suffer as a result of Metrolink's weak central section to which they cannot be connected. You have provided no evidence to suggest a manner in which they (or alternative routes serving the same areas with comparable journey times) could be connected to this central section, so I will continue in my "assumption" (i.e. my conclusion based on looking at the track diagrams) that they cannot. Or perhaps Metrolink runs through the streets as the initial budget constraints prevented it from doing anything else, save end at a remote terminal of no use to anyone? This isn't London, remember.... Nor is it Liverpool, which managed to get two underground link lines built. |
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