Re: Liverpool station

[The Railway Rasputin II <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

They should of made an acces from the river side.
A lot of people come from that side.
I hope the leave the old ramp there but knowing Cityrail they will knock
it down.

rgds

Bradley Torr wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> Regards,
> Bradley.