Re: [NSW] - SMH reporting on Cityrail 15/9/2000

["Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com>]

"David Burns" <dpburns@veal.optushome.com.au> wrote in message
39C29ECD.92533E0F@veal.optushome.com.au">news:39C29ECD.92533E0F@veal.optushome.com.au...
> From today's Herald:
>
> ( http://www.olympics.smh.com.au/news/2000/09/15/FFXWO3WX4DC.html )
>
> By ROBERT WAINWRIGHT, ABAN CONTRACTOR and BERNARD LAGAN
>    9:20PM, Sep 15
>
>    Sydney's much maligned trains and buses turned in a gold medal
> performance, delivering
>    100,000 excited passengers to the opening ceremony without a hitch.
>
>    But the day was not without problems.
>
>    A CityRail driver was stood down for driving past a red signal at
> Olympic Park.
>
>    This incident, just before 8am on the day of the opening ceremony,
> was one of two red light
>    breaches on a day on which a train was sent the wrong way, overhead
> wiring collapsed on
>    a train at Flemington and a freight train caught fire at Cabramatta.
>
>    Though the Olympic Park incident was not regarded as especially
> serious,

By whom?  A SPAD is a SPAD, on whose opinion was it regarded as not
especially serious?

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Ted