Re: What is State Rail up to? (NSW)

[Marvin The Martian <choochoo72@mailcity.com>]

You can't add the cars if you don't have them, they don't say to themselves
'lets put a 6 car set instead of 8 to piss everyone off'

Ivan Smith wrote:

> For every morning this week, the last two carriages the 6 set coming from
> Cronulla at 0832 have been inaccessible to the GP, due to school bookings
> for the Paralympics.
>
> If SR have these bookings why don't they add two to the six and give us an 8
> carriage set to compensate. Us regular commuters are being squashed like
> sardines into the remaining 4 carriages by the time the train reaches
> Sutherland.
>
> I'm at a loss to understand why, with media notifications from the various
> Paralympic organisations, that ticket sales have exceeded expectations due
> to unprecedented interest from the citizens of Sydney and School excursions,
> that State Rail management haven't seen fit to increase the number of cars
> to accommodate the growing pressure on the system.
>
> It's great the kids are separated and all, but squashing 6 cars in to 4 is
> unreasonable IMO.
>
> Ivan