Re: [Sydney, Cityrail] Friday 17 March Chaos

["Peter R K" <peterrk@yahoo.com>]

You obviously missed the point. Normal services are going to be cancelled,
and the travelling public has not been told. Most people do not know the
event is taking place. The Easter Show is held during school holidays and
the biggest days for attendance are public holidays, when there are plenty
of trains available to run to Olympic Park. I have no doubt about the good
things rail can do - the local station master has been very co-operative
about 460 students from our school boarding a train at 8:38am, and how every
one else will wait. It will be a matter of seeing if they have the same good
humour if they are late for work.

As for the Olympic Games, well everyone knows when they are on and have been
forewarned, unlike what will happen this Friday. Remember, when all the
complaints start, you read it here first. I might also add I am working for
the Olympic Road and Transport Authority during the games.

-----------------------------
Peter
"Chaos, panic, disorder - my work here is done."
Sydney - City of the New Millennium and home of the 2000 Olympics

Graham Smith <dysonsmith@hunterlink.net.au> wrote in message
38cf6c03@news.hunterlink.net.au">news:38cf6c03@news.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
> 8al796$f5g$1@bugstomper.ihug.com.au">news:8al796$f5g$1@bugstomper.ihug.com.au...
> > 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?
> >
> >
> > -----------------------------
> > Peter
> > "Chaos, panic, disorder - my work here is done."
> > Sydney - City of the New Millennium and home of the 2000 Olympics
> >