Re: [Sydney, Cityrail] Friday 17 March Chaos

["Graham Smith" <dysonsmith@hunterlink.net.au>]

Surely the disruption through the operation occurring by rail is far
prefereable to the massive disruption if it was to occur using buses. I was
at the Royal Easter Show a couple of years ago, when they set the new record
of over 250 000 people on the site in one day, and to  see the way in which
the system managed that huge crowd was something to behold. It was a great
advertisement for the good things that rail can do!

If you think 80 000 schoolkids is going to make life rough, I hate to think
how much you're going to whinge come September!

Graham Smith

Peter R K <peterrk@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> This Friday, 17 March, in excess of 80,000 Catholic school students will
be
> descending on Olympic Park. Many of them will be travelling by train. My
> information is that up to 40 regular services will be cancelled on the day
> to allow for special trains to run from various parts of Sydney. Trains
will
> be leaving from outlying areas (Cronulla, Sutherland, Liverpool) about
> 8:00am to arrive at Olympic Park no later than 10:00am and return journeys
> will commence from about 1:00pm.
>
> Two specific examples: a train to leave Fairfield to go express to Olympic
> Park; a train to leave Riverwood at 8:38, stopping Kingsgrove, Bexley
North
> and Bardwell Park and the express to Olympic Park (I don't know if it will
> need to run via the City Circle to get to Olympic Park!)
>
> It would seem that there will be morning peak hour chaos for regular
> commuters, although the afternoon may be realtively unaffected.
>
> In addition to the special trains, a number of schools will be travelling
by
> bus, so the area around Olympic Park would be well avoided.
>
> Does anyone have any further information on what will be happening on
> Friday?
>
>
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> Peter
> "Chaos, panic, disorder - my work here is done."
> Sydney - City of the New Millennium and home of the 2000 Olympics
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