03-01-2016, 12:20 PM
(03-01-2016, 09:45 AM)DJC link Wrote:One of the problems with our transport infrastructure is that it's not integrated.
A rail line should have been built down the middle of the Eastern Freeway and another should have gone in on the Tullamarine. It's a scandal that we don't have a train servicing Melbourne Airport'
Of course, the radial nature of our rail system needs to be addressed with suburban interchanges getting people to their destinations without going through the CBD. Getting heavy vehicles off the road wouldn't go astray but it all costs money and Aussie politicians are terrified of raising taxes, or even not reducing current taxes.
Melbourne is not the only city to suffer traffic chaos when something goes wrong. I was heading north out of Paris a couple of years ago and there was a truck fire on the inbound lane. The traffic was banked up for 21kms and there were hundreds of vehicles still heading towards the jam.
Funny to think there actually was an outer circle train line and a bunch of various criss-crossing links between lines. Long gone now. They had more nous in 1890.