Re: ANOTHER CITYARIL COCKUP

[David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au>]

Matthew Geier wrote:

>  Ive seem some thing some where with Cityrail defending them selves - saying
> that the closedowns were planned 12 months ago, and no one told them about
> the Homebush event until it was to late to change the maintence programs.
>  They also said 'we cannot interupt the upgrade program at short notice
> if we want to complete all the upgrading work before the Olympics.
>
>  More 'screw the locals for the games' stuff. Whos gota live here and
> get around town more ?. The residents or tourists who will only be here
> for 2 weeks...

Sigh.  Special equipment is needed to do track upgrading and maintenance work.
If they cancel the work one weekend, they may not get the equipment again for 12
months.  Then nasty things tend to happen, like bridges falling on trains, etc.

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David Johnson
CityRail Guard
trainman@ozemail.com.au
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/