Engineering a solution

Brent EffordLight Rail Transit Assn

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AECOM

Wellington Public Transport Spine Study

Option Evaluation Results -

16 June 2013 Commercial-in-Confidence

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Figure 5 Light Rail Transit option

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How to fail rail: use this model!

Where is the depot??

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Bifurcated route; not = Growth Spine

Bad location for rail line

Unnecessary tunnel doubles cost

Bad median design

Convoluted routeBad location for a terminus

No railway connection

Follows the Golden Mile

West LQ track location

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Factoid: introducing through tram-train services

in Karlsruhe increased patronage by from 43%

to 625%

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solution

Prof Peter Newman, email 19/8/13

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“… A visionary expansion of the

untidy existing system could see

light rail run on from the northern

line at the station along Stout St,

the Lambton Quay bus lanes to

Willis St, and through Manners

Mall, with a terminus in Courtenay

Place. A long-term expansion to

the airport would make real sense.

…

The light rail proposal is a sensible

option and needs now to be

propelled to the front of the

transport agenda.”Evening Post editorial 23/11/93

Evening Post

19/11/93

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2-way LRT 1-way traffic

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Bourke St, Melbourne 29/8/14 Mal Rowe Freibur

g

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Montpellier Christchurch – Cashel

Mall

Opening 12/2/15

Besanco

n

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Tours, France

Lawn track …

Freiburg, Germany – Paul Bruce

14/8/14

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Atlanta Streetcar opened

30/12/2014

Dallas, Oak

Cliff Streetcar

opened

12/4/2015

Sacramento Streetcar

plan

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The Douglas –

Cockburn RLR

proposal, Track &

Signal, Summer 2014Rail penetration of the Wellington CBD, part 2 – engineering a solution

Wellington Heritage Tramway

Feasibility Study

Prepared For

Wellington Capital Development Agency

Lambton Harbour Management Ltd

Stagecoach Buses

By

Douglas Economics

August 1993

Republished February 2004

By Douglas Economics

(formerly Pacific Consulting)

ISBN 0 -473-022-34-6

DOUGLAS Economics

PO Box 9926 Te Aro

Wellington NZ

Email: DOUGLASeconomics&ihug.co.nz

Tel 64 4 472 46 45

Mobile Aus 0409 605 163

Mobile NZ 021 102 83 48

ABN 80 711 934 348

Douglas Economics waterfront

tramway feasibility study August

1993

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A bypass of the Golden Mile to avoid obstructions like parades

A morning weekday relief line bypassing the Golden Mile

A downtown circulator, increasing frequency along the Golden Mile

Effectively bring the Waterfront onto the Golden Mile

Attract more cruise ship passengers to the CBD

Connect the Interislander terminal to the PT network

Serve Stadium patrons travelling south, such as to Courtenay Place

Better connect the Centreport office park with downtown

An opportunity to run heritage trams, including tourist-oriented novelties like a restaurant tram or Hong Kong-style double deckers.

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San Francisco F Line –

www.streetcar.org

San Pedro Red Car Line – replica PE car Hong Kong party tram

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Christchurch track construction – Easter 2010 – $5,000/metre

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http://www.transitorienteddevelopment.org/

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http://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-

traffic-induced-demand/Washington DC – 1945

…the car, a very convenient mode of transport is, at

the same time, very inefficient and it requires an

inordinate amount of road space in relation to people

transported per hour. … The cost of the rail subway

was assessed at up to 20% below the cost of

constructing the Motorway ”.

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D Bruce Dallas ‘Wellington Urban Motorway, Concepts and Inception

1958 – 1960s, The Haunting Spectre of the Might-Have-Been’ paper

presented to the annual conference of the Institution of Professional

Engineers, 1992Rail penetration of the Wellington CBD, part 2 – engineering a solution

“It was assumed that the availability of this utility [the

rail subway], with 6 stations between Thorndon and

the terminus, including 2 serving the CBD, would tend

to minimise rather than encourage the use of the

private car and, apart from other consequential

benefits, reduce demand on roading funds….

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Dallas, IPENZ, 1992, emphasis Brent Efford

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