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Re: Cars make more economic sense than transit: fact
- Subject: Re: Cars make more economic sense than transit: fact
- From: alberta@zip.com.au (Albert Alcoceba)
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 01:39:36 GMT
- Newsgroups: aus.rail, aus.transport, misc.transport.urban-transit, aus.politics, aus.cars
- Organization: Insert smart-ass comment about messy deks here
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On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 10:32:19 +1000, "Robert Hudson"
<manaz_d@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Then there's the fact that one of the biggest growth area in Sydney (the
>Hills District) isn't serviced by trains at all.
>
>So when I worked in the city, I had to catch a bus to Parramatta (which took
>ages anyway, because Windsor Rd simply can't handle the traffic flow any
>more, say 35 minutes), then a train into the city that took up to an hour
>(incuding several unexplained periods of no movement at all), then walk for
>15 minutes through the exhaust fumes. Total cost (just in fares, return)
>around $12.00. None of this time could be used for anything of any worth -
>too crowded or noisy or smelly to ever concentrate on anything worthwhile.
What about the Hills-City express services operated by Westbus along
the M2? Only takes about 30minutes from Castle Hill.
Albert Alcoceba
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