Wasn’t the additional order of 25 more trains announced as part of the budget back in April? Or is this announcement more for the official inking of that deal?
I think it is the official inkling of the deal. It is based on Alstom’s press release.
NSW TrainLink runs the regional coach network alongside long distance trains. The name is trippy, but the ad is accurate
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The name’s not actually that trippy when you think about it, it’s called NSW TrainLink. If you take out the Intercity services which now come under Sydney Trains and not NSW trains (but were also previously branded NSW TrainLink) - they run a lot more coaches than trains.
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I know that. But get rid of the Train part of the name if it’s not just trains. Makes me think of replacement buses.
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So, we have some dates locked in for Metro and V/Line changes:
(Belgrave line is still a graveyard of 30 minute gaps between trains for most of the day)
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But the South African-born Cunningham resigned last week, lasting less than five months. He said the job was extremely stressful, intense and emotionally taxing, with the company offering little support.
Cunningham is among New Zealanders recruited to address Sydney’s bus driver shortage, which has fallen from more than 500 at its peak to 168 last month. According to the NSW government, nine out of 10 bus drivers who are trained and begin work, leave the industry within six months.
Within two weeks of his first day in March this year, Cunningham says he was driving a bus with passengers on Military Road – a busy arterial road that bisects the lower north shore – an experience he describes as “overwhelming”. “I’d never driven a vehicle in Sydney, let alone a bus. My stress levels were through the roof. There wasn’t anybody that I could go to to confide in and speak to about it,” he says.
The 6.7-kilometre stretch will connect Broadbeach to Burleigh Heads for the first time with eight new stops, including Mermaid Beach, Miami and Christine Avenue.
The new stops are
- Mermaid Beach
- Mermaid Beach South
- Nobby Beach
- Miami North
- Miami
- Christine Avenue
- Second Avenue
- Burleigh Heads
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Happy to be wrong, but I’m hearing some changes in line names are coming to the SEQ network for tram and train real soon alongside GCLR3
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Would be an interesting time doing it now, with Cross River Rail and the network being completely redrawn being only 3 years away.
Picture taken onboard a tram.
Credit to Better Transport Queensland forums - not my picture.
Trams look like they’ll be route L1 (guessing eventual Harbourtown extension is L2)
and I’m hearing maybe - don’t quote me on this that trains are also getting it as well
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QLD is copying Sydney with line numbers
They have M1 and M2 for the Brisbane metro (buses) now they have for light rail, next it will be trains
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I don’t think they help with the execution - you need to have the stopping patterns and branches embedded in the designation.
Melbourne for example has line colours, Sydney supplement those with a line number - but they both have duplication, you can’t rely on “T1” any more than you can rely on the colour of the line being Yellow.
Basically you should designate the Emu Plains “T1” different to the Richmond “T1” - as for example many people will likely need to get to St Marys once the Western Sydney Airport line opens - but unless you wait for the long list of stations to scroll, a visitor seeing “T1 Penrith” has to do just as much work to identify if that’s the train they want compared to someone in Melbourne just seeing a yellow sign saying “Upfield”.
I’m sure they’ll do something about that specific case, but the mode of transport is rarely the confusing thing, the specific route is.
Though I’ll admit I often do a double take at the 109 tram if I’m not reading Google Maps directions close enough because it’s the same colour as all buses, but you’re far less likely to accidentally get on an L1 instead of a T1, but a T1 can take you an hour in the wrong direction, while the L1 is just working out which direction you’re heading.
I can’t think of a system that is comparable that does this very well - the NY Subway gets really close - that even though they do have colours for where a large portion of the trunk is shared, most branches get a unique designator, and they have Shapes as an additional one for express vs local stopping patterns, but then they have some edge cases.
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Almost half of the incidents took place along the Gawler line, with 72 near misses reported.
The Belair line also saw an increase, while the Seaford and Outer Harbor lines saw reductions.
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Like I said - it was coming:
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Interesting that on the map on the website, it shows the 777 bus in GC as stopping at Burleigh, but right now it’s still going through to Broadbeach from what I’ve seen. Wonder if they’ll change it later?
There may be a grace period where they’ll keep the bus running its usual full route until people adjust to the tram extension being open.
Different example, but when the Glenelg tram line in Adelaide was reopened after a 6 month closure they kept the bus replacements running for maybe a week or two.
I’ve heard August 24 is the changeover date for the Gold Coast buses