Re: Liverpool station

["Werris Creek" <werriscreek@bigpond.com.au>]

Dave Proctor wrote in message
<38d37330$0$14671@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>...
>Werris Creek wrote in message ...
>>
>>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?
>>
>>
>>No
>>
>>But I would like to know what all of the above has to do with Cityrail?
>
>They designed the station?
>
>Dave
>
Dave

Cityrail may have designed the station but the outside area especially the
bus interchange would have been designed by DOT.
The telephones are located and installed by Telstra.

Regards

Werris