Re: MORE SillyRail Gripes

[stang@iweb.net.au (Aidan Stanger)]

David Proctor <daproc@bigfoot.com> wrote:

> Bill Bolton <billbolton@REMOVE-TO-EMAILacslink.net.au> wrote in article
> <34f2d69e.2443304@news.bigpond.com>...
>  
> > If you are so worried about revenue, I would have thought you would
> > have been delighted to see a service well patronised, instead of
> > whinging about not being able to find two seats together.
> 
> I wouls be delighted to see the service well patronised, IF they were all
> travelling LONG DISTANCE. Glenfield and Campbelltown, after all, have at
> least 8 services per hour - the Southern Highlands has a train every 2
> hours. If people travelling long distances are unable to get seats, they
> are unlikely to travel by train, and will instead drive, and further
> revenue will be lost.

Trains are not well suited to pickup only (or setdown only) and
passengers want to catch the train that gets them to the destination
first, and fining them for that would probably lose some of them to
cars. If the Southern Highlands train's so well patronised, maybe the
frequency should be increased. Your earlier posting seems to indicate
that there are enough seats for everyone but you couldn't find two
together for a fraction of the journey - so I agree with Bill Bolton. If
all seats are filled, perhaps passengers should be told that anyone
going past Campbelltown has seat priority, or maybe introduce optional
seat reservation. Also, if Glenfield is so poorly used by Southern
Highlands passengers, maybe they should lose that stop and have the five
people change trains at Campbelltown.

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