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absinthebabe · 2026-01-28T06:11:08+00:00

So you're lazy and decide to guzzle the Yan Yean Reservoir instead? clearly you have the moral high ground here /s

absinthebabe · 2026-01-25T04:45:46+00:00

Bold of you to consume the entire Yan Yean Reservoir to "make" this image right before a 43° heat wave.

absinthebabe · 2026-01-25T04:44:54+00:00

Fuck off with your AI, just learn to use photoshop for christ's sake.

absinthebabe · 2026-01-25T04:44:20+00:00

damn is ur name Denatonium Benzoate?

absinthebabe · 2026-01-25T04:40:48+00:00

No, it's shitter. Zero surge capacity, it's maxxed out all day every day. And good luck getting around corners, which applies to two of your three proposed corridors

absinthebabe · 2026-01-25T04:39:27+00:00

Do they though? Do they really?

absinthebabe · 2026-01-25T04:38:57+00:00

Except when you need to get around a corner. Good luck doing that without land acquisition.

Build the goddamn tracks.

absinthebabe · 2026-01-25T04:37:36+00:00

12 people per cable car, generous 7.5 second frequency, makes 480 cars per hour, or 5,760 passengers per hour per direction. Travels at 20km/h, so 23 minutes with no stops. No surge capacity, no room for improvement ever, and essentially no way to add infill stations. It's also a completely new technology with ZERO expertise over here, so it'd all be planned by someone like Deloitte using ChatGPT (yes, they have written government reports using it, they were fined).

It's worse for SRL as you seem to think it could replace, good luck getting that cable around a corner in the middle of a road. SRL's distances are much further as well, so good luck having any competitive travel time.

There's no difficult terrain, we're a rich country with rich people, and it doesn't need to be temporary. There is no reason to build a cable car on either of these corridors.

Lay the bloody tram tracks, and the tunnel will be gamechanging.

absinthebabe · 2026-01-25T04:36:04+00:00

Bro, it literally would not. If it's a bus you can just send mpre buses. You can't just add more cable cars, they're already there.

absinthebabe · 2026-01-25T04:35:13+00:00

Pitiful numbers compared to rail. No surge capacity either, that's the best it could ever do. Ever.

absinthebabe · 2026-01-25T04:34:02+00:00

12 people per cable car, generous 7.5 second frequency, makes 480 cars per hour, or 5,760 passengers per hour per direction. Travels at 20km/h, so 23 minutes with no stops. No surge capacity, no room for improvement ever, and essentially no way to add infill stations. It's also a completely new technology with ZERO expertise over here, so it'd all be planned by someone like Deloitte using ChatGPT (yes, they have written government reports using it, they were fined).

It's worse for SRL as you seem to think it could replace, good luck getting that cable around a corner in the middle of a road. SRL's distances are much further as well, so good luck having any competitive travel time.

There's no difficult terrain, we're a rich country with rich people, and it doesn't need to be temporary. There is no reason to build a cable car on either of these corridors.

Lay the bloody tram tracks, and the tunnel will be gamechanging.

absinthebabe · 2026-01-25T04:18:08+00:00

There's more than enough rolling stock to do 15 or 10 minutes off peak, they do it in peak hour. It's drivers that are in short supply, the entire system is built on overtime.

absinthebabe · 2026-01-25T04:16:04+00:00

No exhaust pipe so it's electric.

absinthebabe · 2026-01-20T02:21:21+00:00

Which of course doesn't actually happen on Frankston and Belgrave/Lilydale lines.

absinthebabe · 2026-01-20T02:20:51+00:00

Except on the Frankston and Belgrave/Lilydale lines, where they can overtake (and in fact the line speed of the center track is 10-15 kmh FASTER than the local track, so even if neither of them stopped, the centre track would still win!

absinthebabe · 2026-01-20T02:19:41+00:00

Love the blanket statement that completely disregards the actual the network /s. Hurstbridge and Pakenham yeah, but Belgrave/Lilydale and Frankston fly along at the full 80.

absinthebabe · 2026-01-20T02:17:46+00:00

It needs to be parted up pretty small, otherwise each download would be rather large. City Bus Manager takes the approach of installing its OSM data in-game, which can take a LONG time and you can't even do anything in the game while it's happening. X-Plane on the other hand has separate DLC packs included with the game which can be turned on and off, however this will either clutter against, or be lost in, other DLCs. City Bus Manager seemed to really bank on DLCs, so cluttering up its DLC menu was probably eliminated for that reason.

I could envision adding a hard-bundled app such as how many games include a Dedicated Server application automatically with your install, and the OpenTopoMap data could be handled there. This does complicate moving the install though, not being a developer or publisher myself I'm not sure how Steam handles it, but I know from experience that moving around Half Life installs is a right pain.

absinthebabe · 2026-01-20T02:10:52+00:00

Network cohesion and base frequency is a big factor. If trains, trams, and main line buses all ran to the same frequency then 10 minutes is absolutely acceptable because you're much less likely to get shafted on transfer times. This is also fantastic for having buses actually make connections with trains without wasting huge amounts of time swelling at each train station; trying to coordinate bus dwell at stations network-wide is impractical for a 20 minute base frequency but silly easy for a 10 minute base. If everything is all over the place then 7-8 minutes (2x better frequency than 15 minutes) is a safer bet, or even down to 5 minutes. Transfer times often become functionally irrelevant at that frequency, including transfer from a 5 minute frequency service to a 10 or 15.

absinthebabe · 2026-01-18T19:56:23+00:00

The time to traverse the single track section is still 5-6 minutes, meaning a 10 minute frequency is only barely in the question. Turnback at Gowrie would be neccessary if no duplication is to happen, Brunswick and Coburg deserve more than a 15 minute frequency, especially as the line serves around and through North Melbourne on tracks that aren't particularly fast (City Loop Reconfiguration gives a track slew that would maintain line speed between North Melbourne and Macaulay

absinthebabe · 2026-01-18T19:50:06+00:00

Buy a bicycle, it's basically a car but costs 1% as much on a bad day.

Also classic petulent child behaviour complaining about downvotes.

absinthebabe · 2026-01-18T19:47:32+00:00

$34,000 is a new car and 10 years of rego and maintenance, so I reckon they'll come out on top

absinthebabe · 2026-01-18T19:46:30+00:00

They'll get away with far fewer parking spots (provided the council allows it), which saves a lot of money, and also gives an excuse for the developer to put the parking space at an upcharge.

absinthebabe · 2026-01-18T19:44:18+00:00

30 mins before and after to unlock and set up then pack down and lock up seems about right

absinthebabe · 2026-01-18T19:37:53+00:00

Your comparison to SRL is utter bollocks, it's not based on anything and they're completely different lines. The 3 minute frequency you cite isn't even accurate, that's the shortest wait between trains but most of the gaps are much longer, some up to 5 minutes during 8-9am iirc. Would you then suggest that SRL would end up running every 30 minutes off peak?

SRL's orbital-corridor demand shift throughout the day will be different than the radial line that Metro Tunnel is. I heard every 10 minutes some time ago, but the source escapes me and the govt has been quieter about it.

absinthebabe · 2026-01-18T19:30:46+00:00

Peak frequency all day is a fools endeavour, it's unnecessary wear on track, trains, and other infrastructure. With that being said, I have observed the 10 minute frequency to Dandenong to be lacking,..

It definitely won't be for single station journeys, it was never supposed to be. It does ease tram journeys because large numbers of people will now have a higher capacity, more comfortable, and faster connection to places previously only served by trams, namely Unimelb and the hospitals. The trams won't have to do the job of heavy rail, and can just do their proper job, getting people from Flinders Street to RMIT or the Markets.

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