Re: [Sydney, Cityrail] Friday 17 March Chaos

["Mitch" <this.is.not.my@mail.bigmailbox.com>]

My train was delayed for 4 minutes.. I Tangara [T20 i believe] came through
at low speed @ hurstville. The SPI said that the Waterfall was the Cronulla
train possibly because of automation... It was full of kids.. all of them
going to/from the same place. Why I ask is why does CityRail have to
transport them. Most other venues @ Olympic Park are served by
public/private buses.


"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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