Comments on: When is a platform tram stop not accessible?

By: Photos from ten years ago: October 2014 - Waking up in Geelong

Photos from ten years ago: October 2014 - Waking up in Geelong — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:32:49 +0000

[…] Also ongoing was the rebuilding of recently completed tram stops in the Melbourne CBD so their platform heights met new standards. […]

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Photos from ten years ago: August 2014 - Waking up in Geelong — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 21:32:27 +0000

[…] platform stops closed so they could be dug up and raised to current standards, despite only being a decade […]

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:37:59 +0000

In reply to Jay.

Interesting question – my current theory is “if they upgrade the tram stop to have platforms, the underpass also needs to be upgraded to modern standards”.

However that didn’t prevent stop 63 Deakin University/Burwood Highway from being upgraded, but with the steps to the underpass left unchanged.

https://wongm.com/2021/03/melbourne-tram-stops-step-only-access/

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 16:33:08 +0000

Why can’t st kilda junction have accessible stop

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 03:19:51 +0000

In reply to Helen m. Those platforms were built 10+ years ago - I suspect the reason they jumped the queue is because they were was plenty of space to build them, so it was an easy way to increase the number of 'accessible' stops.

By: Helen m

Helen m — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 05:25:10 +0000

Of course there are the accessible tram stops on route 57; I am thinking of the intersections of Abbottsford Street with Arden Street and with Haines Street in North Melbourne. They are almost exclusively serviced by the older, inaccessible trams.

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 04:01:21 +0000

In reply to Stirlo.

I suspect the tram stop is gone for good, like like many others across the network when platform stops were installed.

https://wongm.com/2013/11/elizabeth-street-tram-stop-removals/

By: Stirlo

Stirlo — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 23:46:24 +0000

In reply to Marcus Wong. Any ideas on if it will reopen once the Metro Tunnel works are completed? The new platform stop is located much closer to Domain Interchange than the old stop on the corner which makes it kind of redundant once the interchange reopens. The current platform stop is very frustrating for those west of Kings Way as frequently the trams are held at the lights on the corner for a very long light cycle but passengers are unable to get on.

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 23:33:20 +0000

In reply to Tom the first and best. I believe the Park Street/Kings Way tram stop was closed in 2018 when the new platform stop was opened on Park Street as part of the Metro Tunnel works for Domain Interchange.

By: Tramologist

Tramologist — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 07:00:53 +0000

They used to be compulsory stops, then trams were allowed to roll through them under 10 km/h to improve punctuality around 2005. Perhaps they needed the higher speed limit to further improve punctuality.