Re: Liverpool station

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

It is all railway land dispite what others say.

rgds

Werris Creek wrote:
> 
> 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