Light rail 2A is coming: site compounds being prepared for early 2025 construction start

I am still in an engineering sense, totally opposed to Canberra having, let alone extending the current tram route the population density simply does not warrant nor support such an expensive form of public transport. Having said that, the current stage 1 is poor standard 20th century technology – the civil engineering of the track is third world standard, and the rolling stock, is extremely poor and old standard technology. Anyone who does any travelling anywhere outside parochial Australia will appreciate my assessment. Those who don’t know better, simply Don’t know better. I am just home from a trip to Turkey, and indeed in one of the Asian area cities Konya, had accommodation directly outside their similar size tram track. What a difference, dual mode Skoda trams, with overhead wires outside the city centre, but disappearing for a couple kilometres through the city centre, running on wireless, battery power. ACT government doesn’t have a clue on a 21st century tram route, re civil engineering and rolling stock. Are they looking for a competent consultant? I was Chief Engineer of ACTION for 20 years, now the place is run by politicians and policy people..

Just getting ready to start Stage 2A?! What on earth have they been doing for the last year or so at Commonwealth Ave?!

Within a few months, for a few paltry $million, the government can extending Adelaide Avenue’s transit lanes, speed up public transport between Civic and Woden, and get more cars off the road. Yesterday we learned that construction of $billion+ light snail 2B has been further delayed, due to delays in the strengthening of Commonwealth Avenue bridge. Stage 2B is now unlikely to start service before 2034. Without more transit lanes, that would mean another eight years of bus and car delays between Civic and Woden.

The election hasn’t settled anything Ian. They still have to get across the lake.

“The ACT election result has settled doubts about the future of Stage 2B across Lake Burley Griffin to Woden”

Seeing as there will likely be another 2 elections before the project gets started unless the Feds pay for it, this statement is quite amusing.

Particularly when they haven’t even released a cost estimate nor business case for the project.

Wonder what the inner south residents are going to say when they release the only way it remotely comes close to being feasible is if they pack those areas with high density apartments on every open space area possible.

In the 19th century, rail was cheap to lay because you did not concrete it into the ground but used cheap wooden sleepers.
The requirement for concrete considerably increases construction expense.
Modern day you have pre-made concrete sleepers.

We’re paying extra for the woke nonsense of have grass grow from inside the rail. Complete nonsense and opens up the project for extorion of cash as there is no value for money.

We could also have had a train that only charged at stops, using super capacitors, eliminating the need for overhead wires.

I’m still waiting for someone to assist me with who this is being built for? 2A goes from Gungahlin to the lake. How many people are going to travel daily to the lake for work? What am i missing?

Also predicting that 2B will end up crossing the bridge
2C will end up at the new brickworks development,
2D will be at woden
3 will be world war 3, as everyone will be over the cost, dead, or fighting over which way it was extended next.