Northbourne Ave Train Solution

That video reminds me of this one…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEZjzsnPhnw

That won’t work here. The instructions are in Chinese. Have ever tried to put together anything with Engrish instructions? I bet it reads something like
In road heavy industry follow in path of line over light industries petite car motor very versitile thankyou for buying our product.
What we need is a Monorail. They have them in North Haverbrook, Ogdenville and Sydney and we’re much better than those places.

difficulty level of crossing Northbourne as a pedestrian: boss

What happens when you’re stuck under the bus in your car and need to turn left while the bus is going straight ahead?

Solidarity said :

Not only is that old, but it’s a dumb concept considering there are these things called subways.

Oh yes! that seems like such an easy and inexpensive idea.

Thats a great idea. We just need to move EPIC and the racecourse to make way for this or the light rail.
Mr Dawes from ACT Economic development told the assembly that these could be moved, to make way for development, although no updated evaluations have been conducted. Apparently high density developments along Flemington road could help demand for the light rail service. This is further evidence adding to the realization that the light rail is a white elephant and not viable .

ThatGuy said :

So cars pass underneath it and crash into the sides when they want to turn left or right? Yes the normal person would be aware of a hulking behemoth enveloping their car, but Canberra drivers aren’t all classified as normal.

perhaps the cars that are only going straight along northbourne travel underneath but the one that are turning have a lane on either side. Remember that there is a lot of space in the middle for lanes.

It needs to be wheelchair accessible.

I applaud the designers for thinking beyond the conventional, but dread to imagine the utter disaster when this thing wants to take a corner with a road full of cars beneath that WILL go straight ahead.

Also semitrailers – 2.2m clearance isn’t much.

And what harvyk1 @#10 said re Canberra’s population or lack thereof.

It’s an interesting idea, but I didn’t think that northbourne ave really had the sustained level of traffic to require a mass transit system of this nature to be put in place.

On one side you have the city which is a hub, but on the other side you have Dickson, which is hardly a hip and happening place worthy of a mass transit system style stop.

Thanks to Canberra’s spread out and rather de-centralised design, most public transport options are really going to be point to point of small groups of people, rather than a large group of people all trying to get from the same place to the same place.