[publictransport] Todays meeting 12/01/08

[Brianna Laugher]

On 15/01/2008, Daniel Bowen <daniel.bowen at ptua.org.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> > * Band together with PTUA for bigger picture PT improvements
>
> We'll obviously continue to push for a wide variety of PT improvements.
> (That's what we do!)
>
> As far as the Bike Ban, we'll be responding to any media enquiries on
> it, as well as highlighting it where appropriate. Beyond that we may not
> be able to do a great deal more other than support any existing
> campaigns (eg yours) due to lack of resources, but we'll do our best.

That's great.
My comment was wrt the fact that a lot of the meeting attendees
expressed a desire to push for generalised longterm improved PT, and
while definitely a good thing to do, my opinion is that makes more
sense within the context of the PTUA rather than a campaign called
"bin the bike ban". :)

> > Hm, is there actually a formal measure for crowding? Is it just when
> > people stop bitching?
>
> There is a formal measure; it's the number of passengers per train (or
> per carriage) averaged out over an hour. A figure of more than 798 per 6
> car train is meant to trigger action to resolve it.

Is that measure regularly calculated and published?

cheers,
Brianna

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