@jakecoppinger crazy that they’re optimising for SECONDS for car drivers. Meanwhile pedestrians regularly wait over a minute at so many crossings across Sydney!

Imagine if the same efforts put into optimising car waiting times and experience was put into cycling/pedestrian infrastructure 🫠

@jakecoppinger I note that the metrics they use for Parramatta Rd is "traffic volume", i.e. the number of motor vehicles moving along the corridor, rather than the number of *people* using the corridor.

So a bus with 40 passengers gets treated as one vehicle, as does a car with one passenger. Pedestrians count as zero vehicles.

Unless I missed it, they don't even bother saying that they only include cars when they say "travel times". A fine example of car-centric arrogance.

Also, a Sydney light rail vehicle carries 450 passengers. On average, cars in Sydney carry around 1.1 passengers each.

So 3109 cars in AM peak (defined as 8AM to 9AM) * 1.1 passengers each = 3,420 passengers. That's equivalent to just 7.6 trams carrying 450 passengers.

There would be far more passengers making more journeys faster if just one lane in each direction were handed over to light rail.