Re: Airport rail link

[usenet.spam@gunzel.net (Michael)]

Alex Pout <alpout@optusnet.com.au> wrote in article
<3a08ea38$0$19404$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>: 

>But is there some psychological problem there with running 24 hours?  I
>remember both reading about the massive taxi shortages on weekend
>mornings, when everyone is heading home, and having to wait for 2 hours
>for a taxi at 3am.  Even if the trains and trams had only run 24 hours
>on Friday and Saturday nights, it would have been a major help for a lot
>of people.  Or maybe the taxi industry enjoyed the monopoly on after
>hours transport??? 

Seems so. Our hypocrites in Parliment on one hand tell people to not drink 
and drive, while on the other hand, don't provide any reasonable 
alternative. The government still seem to have a car mentality as far as 
getting home at night goes. The Nightrider bus idea is great, but why not 
make it a train instead? There would certainly be enough passengers for a 
45 minutely train service through Saturday and Sunday morning. Nightrider 
buses, with a standard Met fare structure, and running along normal railway 
routes would be fine Monday morning through Friday morning.

And despite our "public transport activists" beliefs, security guards ARE 
needed on night services. Armed preferably.

M.

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