planning and delivery of urban and suburban services: opportunities for revisiting forgotten options

Planning and Delivery of Urban and

Suburban Servicesopportunities for

revisiting forgotten options

Tony SmithKororoit Institute

13 November 2012





13 November 2012

Grade separation adjacent to Keilor Plains on the 150 year old Bendigo

line which VicRoads pushed ahead of other notorious St. Albans crossings

with no real input from rail agencies.

(Growing the Adjacent Possible)





13 November 2012

Grade separation adjacent to Keilor Plains on the 150 year old Bendigo

line which VicRoads pushed ahead of other notorious St. Albans crossings

with no real input from rail agencies.

with special reference to suburban heavy rail in Victoria in the wider contexts of

intermodal transport requirements,an interstate comparator, successful

reframing in another service type and emergence/systems/complexity theory

(Growing the Adjacent Possible)

1946 aerial photomap of world I was about to be born into

Maternal grandparentsʼ home and plumbing business



Parentsʼ house



Parentsʼ houseGlenbervie and Pascoe Vale

railway stations




railway stationsFive Mile Creek to yabbies





Strathmore High School





Strathmore High SchoolTullamarine Freeway






PICA Pty Ltd office






PICA Pty Ltd officeStrathmore Sports Club 1993

Working lifetime in information systems,

commentary, policy

Community sports administration back to

Moonee Ponds Creek

Sydney in lead up to Olympics encouraged

public transport use

Back in Melbourne explored rail and trail

Reconnect w. Bill Hall re complexity theory,

Emergence Meetup

Taylors Rd grade sep

Map “leaked” to The Age 9 August 2007

Inherited my mother’s Brimbank community

involvements

http://www.vicsig.net/infrastructure/projects/trp

http://www.vicsig.net/infrastructure/projects/trp

While again saving Errington Reserve, urban growth boundary expansion

suggests central future for Brimbank.

Emergence Meetup wants independent polydisciplinary research structure.

Brimbank Council into administration.

Take interest in Orica Deer Park site and decide available Kororoit domain names

too good to leave alone.

Metropolitan Transport Forum and similar others.

Experience perils of “community consultation” in many guises.

Knowledge Cities special session: Putting Community Knowledge in Place.

Incorporate Kororoit Institute Proponents and Supporters Association.

Platform Barriers• Childhood at the wrong end of Pascoe Vale

• Platform tickets to see off interstate rellies

• Breaking up Victorian Railways

• Platforms that could connect instead divide

• Each example is local but reveals a mindset which persists through restructurings

• The big loser has been Myki‣ that one more requirement that breaks the system

Choosing a few locations• ALBION (after Sunshine on Sunbury line)

• Flemington Racecourse (RRL #bustitution)‣ Western limit of trams

• Pascoe Vale (childhood revisited)

• Jolimont–MCG (more Myki nonsense)

• Geelong (constraints on a local network)‣ 1876 single track tunnel to everywhere south

‣ Standard gauge to Adelaideʼs near misses

to Melton, BallaratRRL under construc

to Sunbury, Bendigo

to S

ydne

y

to Melbourne

to Adelaide

ALBION

UpperStonyCreek

concrete

LowerStonyCreekburied

StonyCreekflood

diversion

Kororoit Creekto Melton, BallaratRRL under construc

to Sunbury, Bendigo

to S

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y

to Melbourne

to Adelaide

ALBION

300 counted crossing tracks illegally during peak hour

—report to Brimbank Economic Development and Transport Committee

The Victorian Railways Magazine of September 1927 carried an article by Chas. H. Perrin, then Chief Engineer for Railway Construction. The article was headed “Bridge Building in Excelsis” and began:

Spectacular feats of bridge-building are involved in the construction of an i n d e p e n d e n t g o o d s l i n e b e t w e e n Broadmeadows and Albion, which was recently begun.Three deep gullies will have to be spanned. One of them, the Maribyrnong River, demands the construction of a steel viaduct, a quarter of a mile long, 180 feet above the deepest point of the creek bed, and weighing 1650 tons. This viaduct, which will be about the same length as the Moorabool Viaduct - Victoria’s largest bridge - will, however, be considerably higher, high enough, in fact, to top the Flinders-street clock tower.

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Rapid population growth in Geelong and on the coast suggests itʼs time for its own networkBUTAll lines south via single track tunnel opened in 1876ANDStandard gauge Melbourne Adelaide line has a minimal siding at neglected North Shore station

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Rapid population growth in Geelong and on the coast suggests itʼs time for its own networkBUTAll lines south via single track tunnel opened in 1876ANDStandard gauge Melbourne Adelaide line has a minimal siding at neglected North Shore station

First passenger train ran though the 422 metre long Geelong Tunnel between McKillop and Ryrie Streets on January 13th 1876.Single track continues to South Geelong.

http://www.railgeelong.com/location/geelong-tunnel

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'shops

In summary: opportunities forrevisiting forgotten options• (Have been talking about rail, mostly heavy)

• An old furphy: lines killed when all about cars

• Restricting access to Metro platforms only

• Stations: single purpose or community utility

• Battle between separation and resilience

• Contextual changes can revive opportunities

In wider contexts• Intermodal transport requirements

‣ Transport Integration Act 2010

• An interstate comparator

‣ Sydney’s different topography and decisions

• Successful reframing in another service type

‣ MMBW storm water succeeded by River Health

• Emergence/systems/complexity theory

‣ Dissipative systems Exploring Possibilities

‣ Convergent large city rail network topology

http://www.transport.vic.gov.au/legislation/transport-integration-act


http://www.slideshare.net/ynotds/the-trails-of-two-cities

http://www.slideshare.net/ynotds/the-trails-of-two-cities

http://www.melbournewater.com.au/content/rivers_and_creeks/river_health/river_health.asp

http://www.melbournewater.com.au/content/rivers_and_creeks/river_health/river_health.asp

http://ynotds.com/

http://ynotds.com/

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/subway-convergence/


Intermodal thinking• Taylors Road 2007-08 grade separation by

VicRoads with no planning input from rail

• Mid 2009 combined presentation on new Growth Areas, outer metro road-rail corridor, RRL and grasslands reserves

• Transport Integration Act 2010 “is Victoria's principal transport statute.”

‣ Mandates communication, but no enforcement regime

‣ Also specifies coordination with land use planning



Just four rail lines radiate from the

Sydney basin.

So Sydney Rail did not stay radial, instead providing many more routing options.

Historical divergence driven by trams

Sydney found other uses for its old tram depots

Success stories rarely heard• “The Environment Protection Act 1970‣ was at its inception only the second Act in the world to

deal with the whole of the environment in a systematic and integrated way.”

• Solution to Bay pollution moved upstream

• Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works‣ Great planners, water supply, sewerage

‣ Superseded by Melbourne Water who have improved River Health at many levels, but overall planning lost

• New developments use storm water wisely

Emergence/systems/complexity

Emergence/systems/complexity• Improved understanding since 1980s‣ Discovered independently and framed in many silos

‣ Terminology and other obstacles to wider appreciation

• Reconnected with Bill Hall at end of 2005‣ Melbourne Emergence Meetup leads to Kororoit Institute

• Gradient dissipation: emergent organisation‣ Energising flows: photons, nutrients, words, money, ...

‣ Salthe: Maximum entropy production principle, 50% ceiling

‣ Hall 2011: Physical basis for the emergence of autopoiesis, cognition and knowledge

http://kororoit.org/PDFs/WorkingPapers/Hall-Working0002.pdf




Sample of subway network structures from (clockwise, top left) Shanghai, Madrid, Moscow, Tokyo, Seoul and Barcelona.

Image: Roth et al./JRSI via WIRED.

Emergent convergence of big city rail



A postscript from Adelaide a couple of weeks later

• ... where they are about to have an extended shutdown to electrify

• Having walked from the interstate terminal, found Kenwick provides a pedestrian underpass




• Seacliff has platforms either side of main road




• Seacliff has platforms either side of main road

• Ovingham similarly has access from both ends and the middle

Questions?

planning and delivery of urban and suburban services: opportunities for revisiting forgotten options

Technology