[publictransport] Todays meeting 12/01/08

[Daniel Bowen]

"Brianna Laugher" <brianna.laugher at gmail.com>
> 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". :)

Yep! Well (blatant plug time) if people are interested in supporting
the PTUA, head over to our web site http://www.ptua.org.au/ and please
consider joining and getting involved -- we get no funds except those  
from memberships.

>> > 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?

I think it's calculated twice yearly from manual counts (you
occasionally see people standing on inner-city station platforms with
clipboards) and every so often the media will publish it and make a
big fuss over it.

Last time was in July:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/07/25/1185339079900.html?page=fullpage


Daniel