Saturday, September 22, 2012

Reason For Plaforms To be Extended!

I get ideas, suggestions, ways, methods, plans, visions and discussions on improvements on all forms of public transport. Yet One I want to state, not all credit goes to me. It goes to the people of Western Sydney, the people of Outer Mount Druitt, the people of Mount Druitt that talk to myself and provide ideas that haven't been used before, will find and solve solutions that can provide a Band-aid to the public transport system.

I am surprised where this comes from, even the people I speak too. I have a family member, Michael, from Granville has made such a short statement to me, that it has blown myself to bits about ' How can it be done?'

What is it, you are all asking. Well I mentioned it to The Mount Druitt St Marys reporter ( without realising that the credit goes to Michael):  that City Rail use 12 carriage trains on the Western and Cumberline lines 'Peak' time tables and 6 carriages 'Off peak' times. That is the statement!

The effect of using these trains has a three prong positive response:

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  1. It will provide more seats to commuters, better comfort and reduce the effect of over-crowding trains.
  2. It will ease the burden to increase train services, as by increasing carriages you increase patronage.
  3. It will promote new commuters (what I call 'virgin commuters') to catch City Rail trains, which in turn provides further income, as more fares are being paid.
 The only issue that needs to  be fixed before this happens, is that train stations have to upgraded to meet platform lengths on 12 carriages. That, in itself is not bad as this will create engineers, planners and labouring jobs to get this done! This is a great benefit to the economy of NSW, whilst the upgrade is in process and most definitely after its completion. 

I'm not sure of the cost or the time to get this done on all train stations in Sydney and the Greater Western Sydney as the initial cost (when  all these upgrades are completed), will be overlooked as the 12 car carriage service will  reduce overcrowding and congestion. More commuters will have a better comfort and relaxation with their daily  trips to their destination. 

Using as an example The 'Waratah Carriage' - this holds 112 commuters per carriage. A standard 8 car train would hold 896 commuters and if extended to 12 carriages, would result to 1344 commuters, an increase of 448  commuters per trip.

Michael suggested the 12 car train would run in 'Peak Periods' and a 6 car train in 'Off Peak Periods'. The 12 car train can be disengaged into 2 trains to meet off peak trips!


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