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Presentations on Melbourne's #SuburbanLoop at a recent Institute of Transport Engineers meeting show the Loop is wildly different from every other rail loop worldwide.
The great SRL experiment: a thread ...
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@MelbUrbanist @NGruen1 @MarionTerrill @inframagoz @urbanizationist
Graham Currie, Prof of Public Transport at Monash University and an SRL sort-of-supporter, sensibly wants more city centres in Melbourne ("polycentricity"). But the SRL is "rather expensive" – he expects more than $125bn, cf original $50bn max.
His slides are WOW ...
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Melbourne's #SuburbanLoop is a huge loop because Melbourne is a huge, spread-out city (that's the SRL up in the right-hand corner). End result: the SRL travels through relatively very low-density territory.
3/12 SRL vs other cities, comparing metro loop length with city a
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