Re: [Sydney, Cityrail] Friday 17 March Chaos

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

The web site doesn't seem to be working, or it's just so slow that it times
out - much like the rest of CityRail.

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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

Mitch <this.is.not.my@email.address.com> wrote in message
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> see Notices at your local CityRail station.... or maybe their website
>
>
> "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?
> |
> |
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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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