Re: PT lobby groups (was John Kirk letter in May Railway Digest.)

[Dave Proctor <david@sd3.mailbank.com>]

On Mon, 28 May 2001 05:41:28 GMT, John Coyle <nospam@newsranger.com>
wrote:

>In brief, I have contacted the PTUA, the GSR, and the the Herald Sun and
>mentioned the fact that interstate rail services into Melbourne such as the
>"Overland" and XPT are listed in the Bulletin section of the paper, but NOT the
>"Ghan" A quick phone call to the HS Editorial office probably would see the
>matter corrected. So, how about taking five minutes of your time, Vaughan, and
>accept the challenge of having the "Ghan" listed in the Herald Sun?

Why not ring up yourself and call yourself "John Coyle, President of
the Public Transport Advocacy Council of Victoria".

>Perhaps you will have a victory, where I must admit, I have failed!

You have failed because you are a wanka.

>Let me put it this way, if a member of the PTUA had contacted me and said that
>the Brisbane Courier Mail newspaper was publishing details of EVERY train into
>Brisbane, EXCEPT, say, the "Westlander", I would do my BEST to have them include
>that information in future.

Shows you need to get a life.

>For a so called "One Man Band" CFPT have gained varous public transport
>improvements over the last ten years! Why not ask Paul Mees to hand you the
>Public Transport Advocate, next time that I mail it to him? There is a list of
>some of the things that have been gained.

All very self congratulatory to you, I imagine.
>
>Keep up the good work, Vaughan!

Vaughan is good at his "work".

:-)

Seriously, I believe that it is time you moved on to bigger and
greater issues. This issue regarding the Ghan will never be resolved
to your liking. GSR see it as a tourist train, and this is evidenced
by their marketting of it, even to the extent of not including
intermediate times on their website.

The current situation suits them fine, it is not going to change, no
matter how much you hold your breath and hyperventilate. So it is best
to grow up and get over it.

Dave