It’s way over budget and months late. Now it’s emerged that a trip on Sydney’s new trams will take longer than the buses they will replace.
The new L2 Randwick and L3 Kingsford lines will join the L1 inner west line in a light rail renaissance for Sydney. The city’s trams join new networks introduced in Canberra, Newcastle and the Gold Coast.
Undoubtedly, parts of the CBD have been transformed with cars banished from major roads, replaced with a pedestrian and tram thoroughfares similar to Melbourne’s Bourke St. “In George St, for example, tram drivers are slowing right down because some pedestrians are still not behaving safely near light rail.”
Circular Quay to Coogee will likely take about 45 minutes by tram and bus, assuming connections are smooth.So even at full pelt, the light rail could take a few minutes longer for the same journey.The biggest mistake, he said, was not extending the light rail all the way to the beachside suburbs in the first place.
“But I doubt the trams will get a reasonable amount of traffic light priority, so this represents a slower journey than might have been.”
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