Comments on: The saga of lifts at Watergardens station https://wongm.com/2024/12/watergardens-station-lift-upgrades/ Marcus Wong. Gunzel. Engineering geek. History nerd. Tue, 03 Dec 2024 08:36:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Andrew https://wongm.com/2024/12/watergardens-station-lift-upgrades/#comment-963217 Tue, 03 Dec 2024 08:36:07 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=20153#comment-963217 Never future proofing, with leaving the future cost to future governments. Anzac Station, we were informed and I assume the other new Metro stations, can fit ten HCMT carriages, but how many other station platforms would need to be extended to fit ten carriages? Watergardens would be one of them.

]]> By: Alan https://wongm.com/2024/12/watergardens-station-lift-upgrades/#comment-963199 Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:42:37 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=20153#comment-963199 In a previous blog post https://wongm.com/2017/01/poor-planning-city-loop-lift-replacement/ there is a list of other stations with a similar problem:

> the designers of Laverton, Coolaroo, Westall, Footscray, Thomastown, Epping and South Morang stations took the cheap option, and provided just a single lift to each platform, with no alternate access for people unable to use the stairs

Footscray now has ramps, and presumably Coolaroo has since been provided with dual lifts, as it’s mentioned as an example in the Jacobs report.

Was any resolution ever found for the other stations? Laverton gained some notoriety for it’s lift outages, but I’m less familiar with the others.

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