Re: [VIC] New Bayside timetable in November

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

Railway Rasputin3 <jamesccj@optusnet.com.au> wrote in article
<39b8e156$0$26544$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>: 

>I think FSS is own by Connex, , the escalator probabily need some oil:-)
>or some sort of alignment problem with the gear and chain.

Correct, FSS is owned by Connex. Having heard that escalator, it doesn't 
sound too healthy. Probably vandals.

>Earlier this year government provided 70m$ to the operator to introduce
>more express service on most lines during off peak. Hopefully we would
>see some of these espress trains in the up coming new timetable.

It kind of worries me that the government are handing money over fist, as 
in incentive for the private rail companies to do what they were bound to 
do by contract in the first place. Why not put the money where it is 
needed? We have needed an airport line for a few years now. Public 
transport in the south east of Melbourne is apalling, so why not fix that?

ObNews: Heard on news this morning, last night a man was injured by glass, 
caused from a rock allegedly thrown though the window of a Frankston bound 
train at Highett. A 14 year old male has been charged as a result.

M.