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Some suggestions to improve the Melbourne railway network:
>Better expresses
To do this you would take the three track lines and convert them to two tracks. Where you have a three track station, you would then make that four tracks with passing tracks (no platforms) in the middle, and the two outer tracks for stopping services. This happens a lot in Japan and with decent timetabling, you would not only be able to run a heavy express schedule (vital for the fools out in the far east) but capacity would be increased as well.
>Extra-urban capacity
Sunbury, Melton, Tarneit, Laverton and others will be seeing an explosive growth in the next decade or two. Of course electrification helps, but the 6 car sets running in the loop aren't going to cut it. For the exurbs, you would have express services running in and terminating at Southern Cross like the v/line services they'd replace. As rapid boarding isn't as much of an issue, you would be able to run double deck stock similar to Sydney, and the problems faced the the previous attempt at this would be moot.
>Sation spacing
Just get rid of some of the fucking stations. It's politically distateful of course, but having a station every 400 metres (especially around collingwood and clifton hill) is absolutely ridiculous.
>Improve the loop
2x clockwise, 2x anticlockwise, run services through those tunnels as needed, and with more flexibility. The current situation is a fucking joke
Thank you for listening
