Petition for another light rail stop in Surry Hills: https://www.teamclover.com.au/wimbolightrail
I've signed mostly because I don't like the argument that stops would be too close together because of a fixed '400m catchment', which is outdated and not representative of mode choice decisions & experience for shorter trips.
Having registered my opposition to catchment analyses... here's a rough one anyway.
oh and in the name of #openscience I'm trying to put more of my scribbles online, this can be found here:
https://github.com/JosephineRoper/Access-visualisations/blob/master/Wimbo%20Park%20LR%20stop.ipynb
@jroper When I took a curiosity ride of the tram out to Randwick, past Surry Hills it felt a lot like a suburban metro line rather than a tram line. The long tram cars didn't help counter that impression.
@static Yeah. It would be cool to split them and run double the frequency... as I understand the length was a compromise to create less delay for cars at intersections, but not sure that it holds up if measured in person-delay.
@jroper I just realized what was bothering me about that: it gives too much back to car-centric thinking.
@jroper Interesting, I haven't made up my mind whether or not I support the idea. Would certainly make a nice connection to Bourke St Cycleway for bike+tram trips.
Curious what you see as the primary purpose of adding the stop? Am I right in saying it'd mainly be for the school, the surrounding lower-side-of-medium density residential and some retail/dining along Bourke & Cleveland St (although there seems to be less than Crown/Devonshire)?
@SydneyCyclewaysFan @jroper Signed. And if there's another petition for more stops along George St, I'll sign it too.
@SydneyCyclewaysFan Good question... it mostly seems to be driven by residents nearby.
Neither stop serves Crown Street very well which seems like the main attractant for people from elsewhere (I didn't mark it but it's the street basically right down the middle of the two stops in the 'after').
I'm more 'not against it' than for it myself too.
These close stops here and in the CBD would make more sense if the light rail was faster - long dwell times and slow acceleration seem to be the main causes which could potentially be improved.
But I haven't done an end-to-end access analysis which would help really understand how useful or not the stop is.