Re: CityRail services for NRL finals at Olympic Park

[Don Allitt <nahgfa@zeta.org.au>]

Flexibility is a word that does not exist in shittyrail vocabulary.
Don.

WhaleOilBeefHooked wrote:

> This Sunday, St. George/Illawarra will be playing Cronulla at Stadium
> Australia. For those not familiar with the NRL and/or Sydney, St. George and
> Illawarra football teams merged at the end of last year, with the St. George
> team being based in the Rockdale/Kogarah area, and Illawarra at Wollongong.
>
> CityRail are planning on running their normal Olympic Park service for this
> game - trains running from Central to Olympic Park and then continuing on to
> Blacktown.
>
> Given that the two competing teams are all located on the same rail line -
> Illawarra line and the South Coast line, why hasn't anyone at CityRail
> bothered to run a few trains from Wollongong and Cronulla, via the goods
> line through Enfield, direct to Olympic Park?
>
> Instead, football fans will have to transfer at either Central or Redfern -
> NOT a case of good planning. Of course, they cannot run direct services from
> everywhere for every event, but surely this is a special case.
>
> DaveP