Re: [NSW] Who's got the worst trains

["Jason" <jason@bigpond.com>]

I find that there are things to complain about,particularly after it was
reported in a sunday paper that staff of Cityrail are jointing around the
World when they cant provide a safe,clean, and on time service to the
public---all we get is fare increases to"up grade".Where is the upgrade?
"C. Dewick" <craigd@lios.apana.org.au> wrote in message
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> "Gnome 412" <gnome412@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> >from http://news.com.au today ...
>
> >23mar00
>
> [ some sections deleted ]
>
> >State Rail has applied to increase fares by 12.2 per cent this year
despite
> >growing commuter anger about overcrowding, dirty trains, safety and
> >reliability.
>
> >In other developments revealed yesterday:
>
> >A check of more than 100 trains by The Daily Telegraph found barely a
fifth
> >were running on time.
>
> Did they define what 'on time' means? I bet not, which means if a train
> tabled to arrive at time X arrives at time X+1, they'd regard that as
late..
> grrr..
>
> And I bet nobody thought to take into account the wet, cold weather we've
> had for the last week until today. The rail network is highly
> weather-dependent for running time performance.
>
> >The Australian Services Union said nearly 300 complaints were being made
> >about train services daily.
>
> To whom? And what about? We hear these sort of claims all the time with no
> hard evidence to back up the numbers.
>
> >Transport Minister Carl Scully said CityRail should do better. "I am
> >disappointed with the performance of CityRail," the minister said.
>
> Yeah - yeah.. it's all yadda yadda yadda for a man who has no idea what
> actually goes on at the coal face. I have no faith in Carl Scully, and at
> the moment I'm divided about certain other people (namely the CityRail
train
> crewing manager and other people at around the same level) since I hardly
> know any of them and have no idea what any of them (except the CityRail
TCM)
> looks like. 8-)
>
> >The number of carriages has reduced with the retirement of the last of
the
> >so- called red rattlers in the mid-1990s.
>
> Wrong again - they were all withdrawn by 1992. I wonder if the newspaper
> ever think to hire a specialised 'transport' reporter who knows what he's
> talking about? 8-)
>
> >State Rail said there had been a fresh surge in passenger numbers in
recent
> >months that could only worsen overcrowding problems.
>
> What overcrowding? There are always heavy passenger loads in the AM and PM
> peaks - the trains are always full. Outside these times, the trains are
> almost never more than 50 percent full.
>
> >There is no solution in sight in the short term to the shortage, despite
the
> >added pressures of the new airport line and the Olympics.
>
> I just love the flamboyance of the language!
>
> >Transport Minister Carl Scully said yesterday that improved maintenance
> >turnaround times meant CityRail was effectively creating more services
with
> >less carriages.
>
> Yes, but 'improved maintenance turnaround time' actually means 'less time
to
> do maintenance' which further translates to 'less maintenance'...
>
> Regards,
>
> Craig.
>
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