Re: NSW Opposition claims rail shake-up a step in right direction

[mauried@tpg.com.au (Maurie Daly)]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 02:46:11 GMT, dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David
Bromage) wrote:

>The NSW Opposition has welcomed the management shake-up at State Rail, but
>says it does not go far enough.
>
>http://www.abc.net.au/news/state/nsw/archive/metnsw-30oct2000-6.htm


Im a bit confused here,and I wonder whether Carl Scully and the media
is as well.
"State Rail" as it seems to be called is now simply a rail operator
running over RACs tracks and is subject to maintenance holdups caused
by RSA, yet another Rail authority.
Whilst there is no doubt that there are major problems within the
current State Rail Authority, how much of this is all due to State
Rail mismanagement?
It seems that the other CEOs  of both RAC and RSA have gotton off
scott free.
Is Simon Lane simply a convenient scapegoat who has to fall in order
that Carl Scully can be seen to be shaking up the Railways generally.
If Ron Christie is appointed to head "State Rail" does this mean that
he will then no longer be Director General of Rail, ie no longer in
charge of RAC / RSA.

"State Rail" or whatever you wish to call it , wont be able to
function properly until it is re constituted as a vertically
integrated railway, which is what it used to be before being broken up
into lots of little bits .

MD