First what 'formula' does City Rail use in working out how many
buses to put on to replace trains. By my calculation to replace a 4
car Tangara with buses (on a seat by seat basis) would require just a
little over 9 buses. Where I live on the weekend there is a train
every 10 minutes, which if replaced by buses would mean a bus should
come roughly every minute. However standing at Rockdale yesterday only
4 buses arrived (all at once mind you) in the space of about 15
minutes. Station staff managed to stuff most of the passengers into
the first 3 buses (to a dangerous overloading point IMO), however I
was smart enough to not be shoe horned into the first 3 and I got on
the last bus, which by the time it left had every seat filled, but not
standees.
Also another question I have is why the Tangara's that operate out
of Hornsby much cleaner than those that are out of Mortdale. The
Mortdale trains are a discrace and are in need of a good clean. Many
Tangara windows are that filithy that you cannot see out of them (and
the filth looks like it is in between the outer and inner windows) and
the outsides are not much better. The Hornsby examples are much much
better. The outsides are relativly clean and the windows look like
they are new. So whats the go???
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| Ashley Wright, Now in Sydney Australia |
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