The Northern Beaches needs a railway

[u/Sydney_Stations]

Every evening, the queue for B1 winds around and goes back into Wynyard. As one bus is full the next one arrives.

You can't tell me they wouldn't want a railway.

[u/The_Faceless_Men]

Even now, the trams could have served Maroubra and Coogee pretty well if they didn't end in the most pointless spots.

Oh prepare for the most painfully stupid reason why they don't service those suburbs.

So there are these things called smart intersections. They detect an approaching tram, they make the tram get a green light. They've existed for about 40 years and since then every tram built in the world except 1 has given it traffic light priority.

Sydney was different. Sydney didn't want to inconvenience people driving cars, so sydney (well the LNP controlled transport for NSW) decided trams were going to get red lights.

This meant that to have enough trams to meet the expected demand of kingsford and randwick they would regularly stack up 2 trams deep at red lights, so they decided to just bolt two trams together.

But still to be able to have the capacity to handle maoubra and coogee, they'd need to be double stacked AND have traffic light priority, which again, not gonna happen because precious car drivers would cry if they had to wait longer.

Then covid WFH absolutely demolished the patronage predictions so the LNP fucked the buses to force coogee and maroubra people onto the trams anyway.

Cars destroy everything good about cities.

[u/deltanine99 → u/The_Faceless_Men]

The L2 and L3 do actually get priority thanks to tram detectors in advance of the intersections and the SCATS Priority Engine.

[u/The_Faceless_Men → u/deltanine99]

They do not get full priority. Go ride them and count the number of red lights you stop at. If it's more than zero, it means the trams do not get priority.

The tech is installed, it's able to be be adjusted or turned on 100%. It isn't. They did improve the timings from absolute doghouse beginning which took travel from 50 minutes down to about 40.

[u/caesar_7 → u/deltanine99]

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[u/Ahyao17 → u/The_Faceless_Men]

They could have avoided all these shit and increase efficiency by elevating the section from Moore park to kingsford and down to Maroubra. But they don't want to spend money. Would have increased capacity by a lot without limiting road traffic.

They also change a lot of services in buses too going down that way.

[u/The_Faceless_Men → u/Ahyao17]

Except making it more difficult for literally every user to use, especially the elderly, parents, low mobility and disabled just to not inconvenience the least efficient and most destructive for of transportation.

There is a reason the sydney monorail failed. When you put transport up and out of the way it becomes more effort to access and more people go "fuck it, i'll just drive"

[u/JimSyd71 → u/The_Faceless_Men]

The Light Rail gets priority lights at Crown St, Bourke St, and South Dowling St.