Re: CityRail on-time plan slipping

["TurnTableTed" <thatsmyturnnowurturn@it>]

Eviel says "If it arrives on the day it was due, it is as far as he is
concerned, on time!"
Teddy takes no responsibility for Eviels hateful thoughts
"Ivan Smith" <ivsmith11@hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Yes - confirmed. The 5:26pm Jannali to Cronulla has been more than 5
minutes
> late now for the last two weeks.
>
> The South Coast train before it appears to be running very late too. The
> Waterfall Tangara (it's always a Tangara 8 car set this train) due at 5:20
> is also running upto 5 minutes late.
>
> Only one day out of the last two weeks have any of these trains run
anywhere
> near their normal timetable.
>
> The Cronulla train has been variously "The train on platform 1 is running
22
> minutes late: 11 minutes late: 17 minutes late: 9 minutes late: 19 minutes
> late etc.." over this time period.
>
> I've got to go to court soon to contest a $100 fine from them and I'm
going
> to make sure that my brief will slip in reference to the thousands of
> dollars of spent on alternate transports and actual jobs I've lost because
> of State Rail's tardy and careless performance in getting me to work.
>
> It's been worse than it is now, but yes, it's slipping again and yet again
I
> refuse to pay for it when it's really late, as I'm of the opinion that
State
> Rail have failed to honour their duty of contract (The contract is the
> ticket, and the duty is to provide efficient and timely service). They
fail
> their part of the contract, I don't pay for service rendered extremely
late
> or not at all. It's compounded by the fact that the station staff don't
know
> what the hell is going on at any given minute.
>
> Ivan
> "David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
> news:3AAD8FC3.8180388A@fang.omni.com.au...
> > On-time running by CityRail trains is continuing to slip. Latest figures
> > from CityRail show that the average on-time running for February was
> > 87.2 per cent, that is down 0.5 per cent on January and 2.5 per cent on
> > December's figure.
> >
> > http://www.abc.net.au/news/state/nsw/archive/metnsw-13mar2001-4.htm
>
>