Re: MET (Melb) bad days - getting beyond a joke

John Abraham Cleverdon (clev@minyos.its.rmit.EDU.AU)
11 May 1997 23:47:11 GMT

Mick Stock (mzs@eastwood.apana.org.au) wrote:
:
: Is there anyone at the Met (Melb) who can come up with a reasonable
: explanation for any of the following? I've tried calling the Customer
: service number on several occassions without success.....
:
: Wed 7-May:
: 4:53pm Mooroolbark (this one seems to get cancelled on a regular
: basis),
: 5:07pm Upper F-T Gully (also cancelled on a regular basis), and
: 5:17pm Mooroolbark
: - all cancelled 'defective trains'
:
: Why so many cancellations on the Lilydale/Belgrave lines, when as
: far as I can tell, no other lines had any?
:
Another regular cancellation is the 1657 (ex Museum/Melb Central) to
Mordialloc, stopping all stations. As a result, the 1704 Frankston, which
is usually express Cualfield-Cheltenham, ends up stopping at the stations
in-between those two instead. Thus, it takes longer to get home, and the
train is more crowded. This seems to happen almost half the time....

: Maybe privatising MET services will improve things, but then again,
: I'm not going to hold my breath waiting.
:
All depends on who the private operators are....

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