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Government Priority Criteria for Station Upgrades like Redfern

Transport for NSW (TfNSW) has released Internal Working Documents under a GIPA request setting out the Selection criteria and prioritisation process for TfNSW selection of stations to be upgraded. Redfern Station potentially fits three programs – Easy Access for lifts onto platforms 11 & 12; Station Upgrade as a local station and; an Interchange Upgrade because of its wider rail-rail and rail-bus interchange role . Below you will find the criteria that Redfern Station would need to meet under each program. Where possible in Lift Redfern letters Redfern’s meeting of the relevant criteria should be stressed.

The criteria for prioritising potential Easy Access upgrades are:

  • Patronage
  • Potential Patronage Growth
  • Bus and Ride
  • Park and Ride
  • Walk and Ride
  • Education Access
  • Medical Services Access
  • Shop and Ride
  • Recreation and Tourism Access         
  • Rail Operational Characteristics
  • Disability
  • Age > 70 years
  • Child < 5 years
  • Special Schools
  • Aged Care Facility
  • Distance from nearest Easy Access Station

The full document can be found at: Easy Access Program selection criteria and prioritisation process

 

The criteria for prioritising potential station upgrades are:

  • Current Patronage
  • Historical Patronage Increase
  • Historical Growth Rate
  • Future Patronage
  • Future Growth Rate
  • Upgrade Category     
  • Last Upgraded
  • External Works
  • Station Category
  • Dilapidation of station infrastructure

The full document can be found at: Station Upgrade Program selection criteria and prioritisation process


The criteria for prioritising potential Interchange upgrades are:

Technical

  • Supports Metropolitan Plan Centres
  • Supports Urban Renewal Corridors
  • Supports Metropolitan Development Plan Transit Nodes
  • Interchange identified for upgrade within other TfNSW / transport cluster infrastructure programs
  • Patronage
  • Number of bus routes
  • Rail Service Pattern
  • Number of bus trips

Quality

  • Dilapidation
  • Standard of existing customer facilities
  • Capacity
  • 131500 complaints data
  • Safety & incident data

The full document can be found at: Interchange Upgrade Program selection criteria and prioritisation process

 

This list was compiled by REDWatch from the documents referred to above.

 

The documents released by Transport for NSW in February 2013 relating to the Transport Access Program included:


REDWatch Note: Please note that an optical character recognition overlay has been made to the above documents for easy quotation. Please note however that due to the poor quality of some of the underlying scan it is likely that there will be recognition error in the overlay so please check any text copied against the underlying scan.