Re: [NSW - Light Rail / Trams]

[Martin Barr-David <martbd@optushome.com.au>]

This person your referring to must be a fucken dickhead

Ronald BESDANSKY wrote:

> Metro Light Rail have erected LED signs at some tram stops to show running
> information for the public. They are currently switched off and a sign on
> the posts states that this is at the request of the Department of Urban
> Affairs and Planning! A staffer told me some bloke at Rozelle Bay complained
> the light shone in his window! Apparently this person complains every time
> he hears any wheel squeal!
>
> Interesting how people buy houses next to a railway (admittedly, one that
> probably hadn't had any trains running for several years, but not one that
> there was any intention of closing) and then complain when they run trains
> on it!!!!! How would this person have coped if the line had been re-opened
> as a freight line, with a long goods headed by several NRs trundling past at
> all hours of the night???
>
> (Like people that buy houses near a proposed freeway then complain about the
> noise when it's built and force the road-owner to spend squillions on sound
> walls!)
>
> Rgds
>
> Ron Besdansky
> (Computer system project manager and rail enthusiast)
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