Re: Competative tendering in Track Maintenance abandoned.

[Greg Rudd <grudd@mail.usyd.edu.au>]

Bruce Greening wrote:

> The NSW Govt. has anounced that competative tendering of track
> maintenance has been abandoned. This includes the Hunter Valley contract
> that was ready to be let, the tendering etc. procass being complete.
>
> Looks like a win for union inefficiency and a loss to rail the rail
> industry.
> --
> Bruce L. Greening
> bgreeni@ibm.net

The government at a later time could decide to sell RSA and decide to kick
the whole outsourcing thing off again. To have a look at how competitive
track maintainence is performed you just have to travel regularly on the
East Hills line and note the extent of weed growth in the ballast and the
number of ballast failures.  Rather alarming.