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Originally Posted by kevino
Hmmm a quick timetable search shows during the day a train ex Sunbury every forty minutes and just a few km south a train every 20 mins from Watergardens
So if we say 15 min drive then 44 min from Sunbury to Melb Central is a little over an hour.
Compared to 50 min by car
If there’s no incidents accidents or motorway congestion
And please tell where do you park said car in Melb cbd and at what cost?
To my mind car to Sunbury train to City is correct option as it saves racking up another 100 km or so on the speedo eliminates fuel cost and cuts out a potentially high parking cost
If more convenient frequent train times are an issue drive to Watergardens
Please explain
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If I drive to Sunbury I'm already half way to the city and in my car so why bother detouring into the center of Sunbury to get the train?
The north western corridor of Melbourne doesn't have the congestion that the west and south eastern suburbs do, if anything it only jams out near Melbourne Airport outbound in peak times and that's it
It's $22 to park at Crown Casino, or 'free' if you spend money on the tables or go to a restaurant with their membership program,
Or $2.90 if you park on street parking and $489 to get your car out of impound when it gets towed because it's a clearance zone between 4-6PM
You save 20 minutes on the best possible run by driving compared to the train and that's assuming it doesn't sit outside southern cross and wait for 15 minutes like usual because of something with the other trains causing delays.
If I drive to Watergardens to get the train there it's 50km, it's 60km to Melbourne CBD.
Long story short rail transport sucks unless you have a train connection in your suburb, it's not worth driving 15-30-50km to a train station you might as well as just drive into the city.
Same as the longer tram routes, last time I took a tram it took 1 hour 45 minutes to go from Elizabeth Street in Melbourne CBD to Matthews Avenue Airport West, a grand total of 15km.