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I think the ACCC wouldn't allow a takeover that large, buying Suncorp would create a huge monopoly and I doubt they would allow it..
why would you wanna do that?It won't be, but it would be great if they magically installed some light rail lines on it.
*Are you saying there is no place whatsoever for heavy or light rail?why would you wanna do that?
* light rail tracks are more expensive to build than road
* light rail trains are more expensive than busses
* light rail is limited to where there are tracks, busses are not
* you can run a higher frequency bus service because busses are smaller
* busses can use the existing road infrastructure, light rail can not
is there something i'm missing??
So all of a sudden you have become an environmentalist?Light Rail is a far more attractive form of PT and has higher levels of capacity, and it's more environmentally friendly. Plus the tracks (or dedicated path) are already there. Buses could still use it, just not as frequently as they do now.
yes mate, but i never referred to the articulated busses bcc already has.. there are quite a few companies making busses with 200+ person capacity. a quick google shows this dutch firm making 200 person capacity ones and volvo making ones with a 270 person capacity.^^I'm sorry but is says here that Brisbane Transport Articulated buses have a capacity of 100 passengers. If you compared that to Sydney light rail...that would be 2 buses. The Gold Coast Light Rail were looking at getting sets up to 50m long.