Re: Liverpool station

[<glillic@msn.com.au>]

"Werris Creek" <werriscreek@bigpond.com.au> wrote in message
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> Bradley Torr wrote in ........
> >
> >Stations are an integral part of railway infrastructure. I daresay that
> >without stations, one may find it difficult to travel on passenger rail
> >services. They are also an important part of the travelling experience -
> >well-equipped, amenable stations with frequent, well-serviced trains and
> >perway make for a fantastic journey..... and well, this newsgroup being
> >named aus.rail, well, who'd a-thought that discussions about railway
> >stations were off-topic! Certainly not me, they're the things I like most
> >about rail......
> >
> >As for the notion that "the DOT builds stations and not CityRail
therefore
> >it's off-topic" well I wasn't to know that - I was under the impression
> that
> >CityRail designed and built railway stations and concourses! It's a non
> >sequitir, in any case..... railway stations and infrastructure found at
> >railway stations are on-topic. Period.
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> Bradley
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> No-one suggested that the concourse at Liverpool was in any way "off
topic".
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> What I did question was why you were blaming Cityrail for the problems you
> identified when Cityrail had nothing to do with the designing or building
of
> the infrastructure that you mention.
>
> I am regularly amused by posts which blame this or that problem on bodies
> (in this case Cityrail) that have no responsibility in the matter.
>
> If you have problems with features of the Liverpool station area thats
fine
> and you may well be right but why not complain to/about the responsible
> bodies, in this case DOT and Liverpool City Council.
>
> Werris
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>
>

Werris

The above seems pretty indicative of the attitude of the Board of the SRA.
We did not design it so don't blame us. Clearly if what you say is correct,
there is something wrong with a system which permits a railway station to be
built without sufficient input from CityRail.  I read between the lines of
your comments that you do not necessarily agree with the finished result at
Liverpool either. If you as a member of the SRA Board can not influence
whichever government body has the responsibility what chance has anyone else
got.!!


Geoff Lillico