Transport for NSW review of interchanges
APT have contributed to this review, pointing out:
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<li>The NSW Auditor-General reviewed the performance of interchanges in 2007.
<li>The amount of walking needed at the Central tram-train interchange could be reduced by moving the tram stop 45 metres eastwards.
<li>The amount of walking in the Devonshire St tunnel could be reduced by cutting a short new pedestrian tunnel into the old luggage tunnel somewhere near the SW end of platforms 16 and 17.
<li>There are a few places in the suburbs where many walks could be shortened (e.g. Asquith platform 1) but gains are smaller because of the lower number of people involved.
<li>Only a couple of years ago, a convenient bus-train interchange in Liverpool St opposite Museum station was destroyed by removing the bus stop.
<br>The DMR/RTA/RMS has too often required bus stops to be moved away from intersections in order to permit free car travel. Steps should be taken to force balanced consideration in each case.
<li>On the walk from the main concourse at Central down to Railway Square, many people use a 20-metre marked footcrossing between the grassed area and Pitt St/Lee St. Especially now the number of vehicles driving around there has been minimised, the crossing should be shortened somehow, perhaps with some channelisation of the road traffic.
<li>There has been a tendency in recent years to design railway concourses so that passengers are forced to pass shops. While this may be in the interests of the shopkeepers, it costs passengers time, shoe-leather and fatigue. An example of this gone wrong is at Chatswood station, where passengers must leave eastwards even if their destination lies to the west. The intention seems to have been to run them past a shop (reportedly a McDonalds) that never got built. The shop site has been boarded-up for five years.
<li>Closing the northern concourse of Museum station makes people walk further. Worse, the signage does not show when it is closed and some people have to turn back and retrace their steps on the surface.
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Results are awaited.