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Rail

Metrodreamin’

Aims:

  • Include more orbital routes
  • Seperate routes for regional trains so they don’t get held up by suburban trains
  • Not changing anything that’s already a “done deal” (e.g. the route of SRL, no South Yarra station on the Metro Tunnel)
  • No high-speed rail because we’re not Newcastle so it’ll never happen

Things I like:

  • I think it’s pretty
  • While it’s super unrealistic, I think each individual proposal could be achieved if that area happened to be important for an election or something
  • Getting each major route to start with a different letter is pretty silly, but I feel pretty clever about it lol

Things I don’t like:

  • It’s definitely not colour-blind friendly
  • I like that I only used two angles for text, but just one would be better
  • It’s not super clear at stations like Goornong and Warrenheip that country trains don’t stop there
  • Skytrams and subway routes look quite similar on the map
  • Having regional trains from the east do that big loop would still be faster than sharing tracks with Dandenong trains, but it’s very indirect
  • The Flinders Street viaduct only has trains 34 per hour during peak, which is well within capacity. But four lines over 3 track pairs means those lines still interact with each other.
  • I did include stuff for the West, but probably not enough - but it’s hard to when a lot of the development hasn’t happened yet—