Re: Liverpool station

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

Werris Creek wrote in message ...
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>Bradley Torr wrote in message <8avlk9$9l0$1@the-fly.zip.com.au>...
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I had the (dis)pleasure of visiting the newly-opened renovations of
>>Liverpool Station yesterday. And I am extremely disappointed! CityRail
have
>>done an appalling job renovating a station which DIDN'T need it, and the
>new
>>design and layout is so badly designed, it's not funny.
>>
>>Some issues I have with it:
>>
>>* The new taxi rank/kiss-and-ride/parking area - it's tiny! I arrived at
>>Liverpool station at 7pm, well past the main peak rush, and it was still
>>full! The fact that many drivers would stop in the midle of the turning
>>circle waiting for passengers holding up all the other traffic didn't help
>>either.
>>
>>* The bus area. It's huge! Looking at the new bus interchange, you'd think
>>that Liverpool is serviced by hundreds of buses an hour! But no, it was
7pm
>>and there wasn't a single bus for the entire 20 minutes that I was there.
>>
>>* Lack of public phones - there used to be several phones near the old
>>ticket gates - now there are NO phones anywhere except on the platforms.
>>
>>I guess I could rant on and then some, but I won't..... except I wasn't
>>impressed at all, especially after it took me 6 hours to travel from my
>>house in southern Wollongong to Liverpool, thanks to Jubilee 2000 and a
>>crappy Wollongong bus system whose timetables do not have any
consideration
>>for connection to CityRail trains......
>>
>>Does anyone else have any thoughts on the new Liverpool concourse?
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>
>No
>
>But I would like to know what all of the above has to do with Cityrail?

They designed the station?

Dave