Re: MORE SillyRail Gripes

["David Proctor" <daproc@bigfoot.com>]

Aidan Stanger wrote in message
<199803010112293529354@budget10.iweb.net.au>...

>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.


Perhaps you missed in my original posting when I said that the train was 90%
full ex Sydney, but that almost 25% of the loading left the train illegally.
If every passenger ex Sydney was travelling to at least Macarthur, the first
set-down station, the train would have only been 67% full - ample room for
all of the passengers - as it turned out, the train was standing room only
ex-Campbelltown, and we did not manage to sit together until Moss Vale - as
we were going to Bundanoon, we did not manage to discuss various agenda
items for our planned meeting, as we had hoped to do on the train.
Regards

David Proctor
daproc@bigfoot.com