Re: Countrylink named as World's Worst Passenger Service

[Bob Gioia <alco@acay.com.au>]

Michael Photios has been singing this tune fur the last 12 months. The only
reason you are hearing it getting airplay again is that there is an election in
2 months. I suggest that Mr Photios and his moronic followers ride a train in a
third world country before making statements about Countrylink being the worst
in the world. These twits have no idea of the meaning of the word worst.
Cheers
Bob

David Bennetts wrote:

> An item on WIN News for Canberra last night stated that an American magazine
> (didn't say which one, but I presume it's Trains) has nominated Countrylink
> for the world's worst passenger rail service.
>
> I think that, whilst Countrylink is far from perfect, some of Amtrak's
> services aren't a whole lot better when it comes to surly service and poor
> timekeeping - there's so much recovery time built into many of their
> schedules, and yet they still run late.
>
> Surely some of the services in third world countries, where passengers have
> to ride on the roof and crammed in like sardines in sweltering temperatures
> would be a little worse than Countrylink?
> And you only have to read the uk.railway newsgroup to find things aren't
> wonderful on many services in old Blighty.
>
> Regards
> David Bennetts
> Canberra