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

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Graham Smith"
> Ivan Smith
> > Well the plot thickens:
> >
> > "Please use the first 3 cars only, as the last three are booked for school
> > children going to the Paralympics". I was mightily pissed off as I heard
> > this and the only saving graces are that a) the normal commuter traffic
> > wasn't as full on this morning so it wasn't a crush before Sutherland and
> b)
> > this is the last day this will happen, as The Games finish on Sunday.


> What a misery guts you are Ivan! Surely those children who have paid their
> fare are as entitled to use publicly-funded resources as any other
> traveller? Would you deny them the opportunity to attend the Games just to
> maintain your own comfort level?

What fare? They travel for free.

>
> After all, it is those children who have made the atmosphere of this
> magnificant event what it is, in the times when the venues could have been
> echoing with the sounds of silence for lack of an audience.

Even with them, most TV coverage I've seen has shown vast areas of vacant
seats.