Talk:City Loop, Melbourne
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Should this page be moved to City Loop? It's already a redirect to here. Hypernovean 12:52, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- I think it's good as it is. City Loop is a general term; it should really be a disambig, but no one's created the related pages yet. Ambivalenthysteria 13:01, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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- I've now decided that the ", Melbourne" suffix (or any place name really) on this page and all the others that have it is too useful to cull. Hypernovean 06:18, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Power outage
I recall in the news some years ago a power outage in the Loop caused train passengers to be stranded in darkness for considerable time (an hour or more?), and/or having to walk along the train line in the darkness to the nearest station. There were reports of train drivers not having any torches to assist passengers in such an event. I don't think this should be listed in the article, but maybe a bit of interesting trivia nonetheless. Perhaps someone has some more info on this. ozzmosis 18:45, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Photography ban
"The reason for the ban was due to the use of mobile telephones to take pictures of (mostly female) passengers - usually for sexual purposes." - I'm wondering how one could take a photo "for sexual purposes" on a railway platform. And if that indeed was the reason, why has photography only been banned at the three underground stations? Are perverts more prolific when they're underground? invincible 17:07, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
- That didn't make much sense to me either. I've removed the offending sentence. Maybe someone can put it back when it is verifiable. --ozzmosis 19:16, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
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- 'For sexual purposes' doesn't make sense either. People aren't going to stand on the concourse looking down womens tops on the escalators withe their cameras. Maybe the open air stairs are more likely but wasn't the photography ban for security reasons so people that would want to 'you know' to our underground tunnels can't without being told by Connex 'Sorry sir, you can't take pictures here' I agree with the confusing aspect of this. Lakeyboy 04:05, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Failure
I know people writing to the press like to repeat that Melbourne's PT network is a failure, but this edit isn't exactly neutral. I mean, most people would agree that we're better off with the City Loop and reduction in service levels are probably more likely to be caused by increased car ownership than improved infrastructure. What does the City Loop have to do with V/Line services anyway? There's also a subtle edit changing the reason for the failure to expand the loop from a lack of demand to a reference to government attitudes - while that might be right today, policies and governments do change, especially in the 20-30 years that the section mentions. Since I'm meant to be writing a report that's due tomorrow, I'll leave it to someone else to fix the article up. invincible 13:04, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
- I have removed the section because it consisted mainly of unencyclopedic criticism. The few facts mentioned may have a place somewhere else in the article (number of travellers, or trains through the city loop per day). Someone may want to reinsert those if they think it is really worthwhile. --ozzmosis 16:49, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cost of construction
How much did this cost to build? Josh Parris#: 01:51, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] City Loop Line Guide
Hi all. I've started working on a line guide for the city loop in my user area/sandbox, whatever you want to call it. I've seen a few of this style of line guide around the place and thought I'd whip one up and put it up for review. Let know what you think. If there are no serious objections within a couple of weeks or so I might put it in the article. Although I must admit the exising diagram looks pretty good. -- Rick69p 14:43, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
