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:Suburban rolling stock

my reason why I am raising topic, this is because the suburban top speed is 110km, while other parts of the suburban network can reach 160km or 130/40.

but the suburban trains are restricted to 110, there isnt anything blocking in the way to reach top speed and im confused why are we not maxing the top speed on the Siemens (130) , HCMT (140), extrap 2.0 (130)

I do know that extrap 100 will be restricted to 100-110 because of their horrible suspension, but are build to handle 140km to keep in mind. is the reason is because of the break/signal is the problem? or the government haven’t spend enough to reach that top speed?

: Mainline
for the mainline, Im raising this topic aswell because for example pakenham line, from Beaconsfield - Pakenham the top speed is 100. the geography shows that the line is straight with no curve that the line can handle 160 - 200km. same line example I can give dandy to Oakliegh the top speed is 80, but same agian it can reach better speed 100-110km. is there a main reason we cannot get a better speed on the other lines (i am talking about express trains and big gaps between the stations aswell not local trains stopping all stations)

hello there, Melb dosnt have lots of express bus other then uni shuttle and that’s pretty much some on the doncaster freeway which soon will be a busway thanks to the ugly north east link. (ignore skybus )

will government will look into the proposals of the express bus on the freeway or somthing how sydeny has their express bus operation

hello, the Frankston timetable is shit for the express frequency, during the peak times for the morning and the afternoon. my problem with the timetable is that in the morning it starts at 7 and ends at 8 and for the afternoon it’s 4 until 7 which it sucks for the people outside of the peak times for the morning and the afternoon / evening

my proposal is to extend the express timetable

my reason to start at 6 is the time that’s when tradie starts heading to their work including office people and bit later, students will use began taking public transport, it to get to their schools and ending at 10 as it’s appropriate time to finish morning peak.

For the afternoon, starts at 3 to all the way to 8, because In the afternoon students starts to leave school 3-4, and by the time it’s finished the adults starts to leave work aswell but the usage during peak times will dwell 7-8 and then express will just finish for the day until the morning come around.

for the express pattern before the peak time, there could be a pre-peak as the express pattern will only express to Caulfield. But when the full peak kicks in the express service pattern will extend to Cheltenham.

in conclusion, this adjustment would improve the commute times, capacity and passenter flow for student, tradies, etc.

hello there

so I have a good reason on why should u agree on my side about this idea

over the past years I have seen the metro one tunnel getting build and seeing the stations opening, how ever i remember that this project will allow for the airport line to be build and everyone would agree about it but as years went on, we never thought that the Wyndham vale / tarniet would get busy and busy and wood be the time to electrify the line to handle the capacity and the demands aswell.

once the metro 1 was finished now we have more capacity to be build for the west side but it still makes me wonder sense we need to eletrify the lines for the Wyndham vale could we fit space for it?

i did some maths and I do know that CBTC are able to handle more trains up to 2 mins or min and half and I did some maths for 6ph for all 4 lines and it gave me 24 - 30ph if that’s correct so u can fit Wyndham vale line to it but there won’t be enough space for the other lines capacity during peak times

now why should we put the airport line to the RRL?

if u look else where in the world for example gatwick AirPort Express they put their trains onto the regional trains as it’s the best way to use then going on a suburban trains and making the trip fast ik the airport is very far from the London then Melb

so I thought what if we pull out the airport line and go on to the RRL to platform 15/16 or platform 8 this would be good as because the airport line dosnt need a supper high frequencies it can use the spark regional trains, unlike Wyndham line it’s a suburban line, would give the space for the Wyndham trains to go via the metro tunnel, the airport line u can extend it to the south east all the way to the koo wee rup, as there is plans to build the airport in 2017. so this would be a future proof for the airport line and allowing for the Wyndham trains to be fully electrified as a suburban line

this isn’t a bad idea

hello there is there away, we can get the government attention’s to upgrade the dandy corridor to quad or there is away to bring this project on the table agian.

ever sense the metro tunnel as open including the LXRP upgrade. to include with the myki fares been free and later slash half of the tickets the rider ship has boomed on the dandy lines as the HCMT seat capacity is full and now, u will have to stand for the entire journey to get to the cbd which it takes ages to head into the cbd, the were unfortunately reduced much more, express is to short that only skips 4 stations and adding more stops like Malvern and westall.

now ik there has been post about the issue with the dandy in the past but dandy really needs to upgrade and get this done so we can put this issue in he pass. upgrade the corridor to quad from dandy to Oakleigh and triple from Oakleigh to Caulfield

Now this would allow for express to overtake the slow train and gives the benefit for the Vline to over take the lines as Vline can reach 80km from south Yarra to Caulfield. but then has to crawl until Dandenong with the upgrade the time distance and the speed will decrease the time and increase the speed on the corridor, and allowing for the long wait for the Rowville line to be finally build.

I do wish this will happen very very very soon so this corridor will not be an issue for the Vline to overtake or bringing back the South Gippsland or the New lines extension between pakky and crann and not gonna be a issue for the metro trains to run express to skip more stations