Re: Town Hall Stn (Syd) - Potential catastrophe?

["Jamie Grahame" <liar@au.liar.net>]

You, obviously, haven't spent much time waiting for trains at Town Hall during peak hour.
Regularly there are three trains simultaneously and at about three minute intervals.

Jamie

Gnome 412 wrote in message <_tGE4.59304$3b6.233543@ozemail.com.au>...
|Greg Cantori wrote in message
|<38e1f0ad$0$11355@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>...
|>Picture this scenario - late September 2000. You-know-what
|>is in full swing at Homebush and tens of thousands of
|>eager-beaver tourists are using our CitiRail system
|>One morning, around 08:25, no less than 5 fully crowded trains
|>arrive at the six Town Hall platforms simultaneously.
|Ummm....
|
|Aren't you assuming that there's enough rolling stock to allow two (let
|alone five for six!) trains to arrive at Town Hall simultaneously?
|
|More likely, the crowd you postulate will be sitting at Rockdale,
|Kingsgrove, Canterbury and Chatswood thinking that, after spending an hour
|failing to find a foothold on any train, they will have to find a bus
|instead!!
|
|Rgds
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