>In Melbourne over the past 40 years we've had 10 Freeways built
1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan. Overwhelming a roads policy but it did nevertheless have some rail in it which by todays standards looks pretty phenomenal.
Didn't build any of the new lines, some of the electrification extensions has been carried out in the years since, and of course the Loop was built.

I'd like to see a High-Speed Rail between Melbourne & Sydney. The economics are there but the state and federal governments subsidise the air industry beyond belief.

its 1:33am, I cant be the only Australian up at this time

I would like to have a train line come down the Mornington peninsula, right now it takes me half an hour to get to Frenkston by bus and then an other hour to get to the city.

>>596521
I would love to see that.
>>596579
I am up too, but it is a sunday night and a lot of people will have school/work in the morning.

1 word: socialism

i could explain it in more depth to you, but basically government intervention over the last 150 years has fucked up transport in a major way.

>>596604
>and then an other hour to get to the city.
Thats another problem they have, they're running the same schedules as when they had the Tait and Harris trains - even though the Hitachi and Comeng and certainly the modern 'XTrap and Siemens (whatever other problems they have) are capable of better acceleration, deceleration and overall speeds. But schedules haven't been revised to reflect this. I often find the train I'm on sitting at Box Hill for up to a couple minutes to make up the schedule because its early.
And of course modernised track & signal would also allow faster and more frequent services.

>1 word: socialism
>i could explain it in more depth to you, but basically government intervention over the last 150 years has fucked up transport in a major way

Socialism ate my babies cute little sweet and innocent babies I could explain it to you but I'm a dumbass

>>596611
>1 word: socialism
Its been privatized for the past 10 years. Veolia who operated it through their subsidy Connex are widely considered to be to Public Utilities what McDonalds are to Fine Quisine.
And from 1969 to 1999 the governments who treated public transportation the worse were the Free Market Laize-Faire Liberal Party.
Bolte, Hammer, Thompson, and the Dark Prince himself: Kennett.
The 1969 Melbourne Transportation Plan which was overwhelmingly a road policy came from them, they ignored maintenance and upgrades it through the decades of the 1960s and 1970s, they tried to kill it in 1981 with the Lonie Report; Kennett resumed the policy ignoring maintenance and upgrades, canceled the 4D train, and then privatized it.
Public Operation works fine in the rest of the world, where as private operation has given the USA nothing but The Great American Streetcar Scandal and today an intractable inability to build any form of competent public transportation.

>>596667
>4D
double motherfucking decker up in the house!

>>596604
>and a lot of people will have school/work in the morning.
so do I but I cant sleep

Here is another one: train to the airport.
Its pretty easy to do too: a freight railway already goes past pretty close, all they need to do is build a short juncture to the airport, electrify the existing railway, and then run express services between the airport and Southern Cross.

>>596485
Rail transportation is fucked up because the Australian Government is addicted to car funding.

>>596998
They dissolved Comeng in the mid 1990s and sold of the factories. Now trains and heavy industrial equipment are purchased from overseas rather than built here employing Australians.
There were 750 people working at the Dandenong plant in the early 1990s when the B-class Tram was being built.
But government continue to heavily subsidise the local automotive industry and their shitty cars.
They've turned us into America.

>>597055
And I dont think you could by any stretch of the imagination argue that the Alstrom built Xtrap train and C class tram is any better than what could have been built locally
while the Siemens built train is almost too dangerous to operate because of frequent brake failures and D class trams framework is riddled with stress fractures
So there is what we get for sacrificing at the high alter of the Neo-Liberal Economic Reform Free Market Ideology.