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 October 2011

On 10 August the rail industry called for the Government to end its love affair with cars and to recognise the real benefits of passenger and freight rail as it launched a report ‘The True Value of Rail’. The report found that the savings rail travel creates can fund more hospital beds and doctors whilst removing cars and trucks from roads and helping reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. One passenger train takes 525 cars off the road. In one year, one trainload of passengers is equal to removing more than three million vehicle kilometres of traffic from roads. One trainload of passengers travelling by rail instead of car for one year reduces accident costs by an amount that could fund 130 hospital visits, 505 hospital beds per day, or six doctors for one year  

 

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The journal follows developments in the urban passenger transport industry across Australia and New Zealand.

Published monthly by Transit Australia Publishing, a division of the Australian Electric Traction Association Inc. (Victoria).

Transit Australia Journal

The journal is unique in that it considers all modes: Both heavy and light rail, ferry and bus, as well as occasional feature articles focussing on information, fares and ticketing, new technologies, accessibility and some of the political and environmental aspects of urban passenger transport; all considered within the context of the relationship between land use planning and transport.

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 October 2011 issue:

Train at Paekakariki Station, near WellingtonFeatures

Farewell to English Electrics on Wellington’s Johnsonville Line
Transperth’s 252 Serpentine ‘Diversion’ buses
Bangkok - The Purple Line
Perth Station Changes

Front Cover

On 1 April Ian Hammond photographed a City Loop bound  6-car Siemens train led by 756M as it left Sandringham Station past the typical Victorian Railways signal box.

 

 




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