Re: Countrylink named as World's Worst Passenger Service

["Darren Yates" <dyates@pnc.com.au>]

As if Michael Photis is going to do something useful if he gets in... yeah,
right!!!!!
To him, a train has a big diesel motor, 18 wheels and runs on bitumen....

Bob Gioia wrote in message <36940EE2.74222637@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
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