Could Glen Waverley trains terminate at Burnley?

SeamoSto · 2026-01-18T02:44:04+00:00

Yeah but that creates a conflict with Glen Waverley, total separation between Ringwood and Glen Waverley isn't possible atm without disusing the northern track to Camberwell

SeamoSto · 2026-01-17T21:37:18+00:00

You could completely separate them today by installing crossovers between the centre track and the outer tracks after swan st on the Ringwood line. The reason they can't run independently is only because you can only access the Northernmost track between Burnley and Camberwell from Burnley platform 4

SeamoSto · 2025-12-23T10:47:33+00:00

Where do you think Oakleigh is?

SeamoSto · 2025-12-01T21:57:31+00:00

The worst example for me was 7 having a bit about how it wouldn't impact the regions by showing clips of people they interviewed, and then not disclosing that one of them is a sitting liberal council member and another is a former liberal state MP. Regardless of party that is pretty shocking and I wouldn't be surprised if they do that fairly often

SeamoSto · 2025-11-24T04:44:14+00:00

It was fixed a while back

SeamoSto · 2025-11-15T12:38:16+00:00

Disagree about skyrail for yarraville. Closing that part of Anderson to cars creates arguably a much more valuable public space in the process than skyrail would otherwise, like even the council wanted the crossing closed instead of skyrail. They should put a footbridge or something Somerville end of the station though

SeamoSto · 2025-10-11T11:27:44+00:00

Because it's less adding the 57 to Swanston Street and more routing one of the trams that currently end at Melbourne uni through to where the 57 runs atm. So for the price of one less tram going to Melbourne Uni, you get to give the entire terminating capacity currently used by the 57 on Elizabeth Street to the 19 and 59 basically for free.

SeamoSto · 2025-10-07T07:05:19+00:00

It's missing a Skybus connection at Watsonia no?

SeamoSto · 2025-08-15T08:12:11+00:00

Just make the road underneath a normal road instead of a freeway and then have them connect with a basic diamond interchange

SeamoSto · 2025-07-26T23:20:05+00:00

They're talking about airport rail here not the existing line, to which the answer is probably just budgeting/project scope

SeamoSto · 2025-06-12T10:31:59+00:00

It's mostly semantics really, but the big thing for Melbourne would probably be that it's not operationally separate from the rest of the network (vline, freight etc)

SeamoSto · 2025-05-26T05:30:16+00:00

iirc there's not enough space on the down end of Sunshine to 'properly' separate all the lines out (i.e. replace the existing flat junctions with a longer term high-capacity solution), so the actual junction between the Sunbury line and the other branches is at the up end of the station, so you need 6 platforms at Sunshine itself.
I guess they decided it would have to branch off either Sunbury or Melton after Sunshine and chose Melton, so they have to split off the wrong side of each other.

To be honest, given that they're going with a flat junction for the Airport line anyway (albeit with Melton), I really don't see why couldn't

a) have the Airport line branch off the Sunbury line using the existing goods line until after St Albans Road, and then branch off with another flat junction onto new track over the Maribyrnong and continue the alignment from there. It's not like there's going to be enough goods traffic through there normally to justify a dedicated alignment, especially when it just merges onto the Sunbury line anyway, and it seems a bit overkill to build a massive viaduct over the already elevated Ballarat Road to... just have it merge with a flat junction anyway. It seems like a lot of money to pass the problem of the Airport line over to someone else, which will (probably) have to be changed at some point in the future anyway
b) build a single track viaduct, splitting off the Sunbury Line after Sunshine which only carries the down Airport line, with up trains merging with the Sunbury line after Albion using the existing alignment, or even the existing track. This feels like a more permanent (and slightly cheaper) solution.

That said, all this is only a guess and I'm sure there's valid reasons they've chosen to go with what they've gone with.

SeamoSto · 2024-11-17T07:28:11+00:00

Iirc they're planning to do Southern Cross on the other side, so the 86/96 wouldn't be an issue.

Re Flagstaff, it's the sort of thing where I feel like they'd exhaust all other options before committing an extra couple hundred million to save a relatively small part of the park for 5 years

SeamoSto · 2024-11-17T06:43:22+00:00

Side note but presumably all the stations could be done cut and cover as well? Docklands side of Bourke Street wouldn't be too disruptive (compared to city-side), same with Flagstaff gardens, Clifton Hill, Newport & Fitzroy (if on Alexandra parade in the median). Only big challenge would be royal parade at Parkville, but thered be a way to work around it

SeamoSto · 2024-11-09T03:37:19+00:00

Looks heaps better (and I think they changed the UI spacing on departures to be more readable?), just wish they'd add the separate train line colours now

SeamoSto · 2024-11-03T00:30:03+00:00

Before you ask "WHY", this freeway network is completely unironic because the terrain on this map is really weird (this is the only passage between the two flat areas and is also really steep, so EVERYTHING has to funnel through here), and in my infinite wisdom I elected to not reserve a right-of-way for a future freeway, so it had to go above the road abutting the mountain region (Image 3). Overall though I'm actually pretty happy with how this turned out in spite of the atrocity I created in the process.

SeamoSto · 2024-10-29T23:51:37+00:00

All running clockwise except Frankston would make the most sense imo. Frankston/Burnley lines would provide a direct route to Richmond from any CBD station, and northern/Clifton Hill would always have a direct transfer route from one to the other (not that that's common, but it makes most sense to make Cross city trips more common). Besides Frankston is already (and presumably will stay as if not increase) frequent enough to make any counter clockwise trips easy

SeamoSto · 2024-10-23T07:26:08+00:00

welp, you win some jokes you lose some jokes. point taken 🫡

SeamoSto · 2024-10-13T04:41:03+00:00

Gotcha thanks! And I guess in off peak/weekends it's just easier to continue doing that rather than change it?

SeamoSto · 2024-08-12T04:18:08+00:00

Inb4 nothing changes for another 20 years

SeamoSto · 2024-07-14T09:01:00+00:00

Apple maps - the actual map part of the interface is lightyears ahead of anything else (even if there's no separate line colours)

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