Re: Call for extended train service

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"sean" <spam@doctornick.org> wrote in message
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> "David Bromage" <dbromage@fang.omni.com.au> wrote in message
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> > Residents living west of Katoomba are being disadvantaged by train
> > services that run only every two hours, according to one Upper Mountains
> > councillor. Clr Terri Hamilton moved at last night's council meeting
> > that the Member for Blue Mountains Bob Debus and Transport Minister Carl
> > Scully be requested to extend hourly services which currently terminate
> > at Katoomba to Medlow Bath, Blackheath, and Mount Victoria.
> >
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http://bluemountains.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&c
> ategory=general%20news&story_id=28999
> > (Blue Mountains Gazette)
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>> Ive talked to Cityrail people about that in the past, and the reason
behind
> it is that they're isnt alot of ppl that travel up that way in the
daytime,
> and they need V sets elsewhere on the network.

And that is a load of crap, as someone who has had to (as a Katoomba cabbie)
take people from Katoomba to Bleakheath after the train come sin (and heard
radio calls for Bleakheath cabs to pick people up to take them to Katoomba
to connect with the "rail").

Dave