Remove City Loop trains from Burnley group lines

[Peter <railvic@iprimus.com.au>]

Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
> 
> Peter <railvic@iprimus.com.au> writes:
> 
> >I am interested to find out what are people's view of removing ** DIRECT
> >** City Loop trains from Burnley group (Alamain/Belgrave/Glen
> >Waverley/Lilydale lines) during morning peak.  Instead all services will
> >run direct to Flinders Street and most will then run around the Loop
> >afterwards.  If those people choose to have direct Loop access during
> >that time, they would have to change at Richmond.
> 
> This absolutely insane for the outer Burnley Group lines.
> 
> You could get away with it for just the stopping-all-stations trains
> from Box-Hill and Alamein (ie, just make them go direct to Flinders St as
> they did about 5 years ago), but to do it for trains from Ringwood and
> Glen Waverley is counterproductive.
> 
> There's just far too many people travelling in on those lines, and the
> vast majority of them go to Parliament, Museum and Flagstaff stations.
> 
> To make them all change at Richmond is ridiculous, given the number of
> people, and the distance from the city that they have to travel already.
> 
> Anyone who attempted this would have a very short career ahead of themselves
> in public transport.
> 
> Paul.
> 
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> Paul Dwerryhouse (paul@dwerryhouse.com.au)
> Amsterdam, The Netherlands.    <---- current location
> Melbourne, Australia.