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Doug's
Comment - December 3, 2004
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Newcastle.Newcastle just wants commonsense when it come to keeping rail services to the city Please Help. What ever did we do to deserve the continual nonsense about how to cut Newcastle from the City Rail network? We now have yet another proposal for replacing the rail service with buses on the rail right-of-way from David Hensher proposed by a Sydney transport academic as reported in The Herald Friday December 3, 2004. Come on stop the crap, get real. Are there any people out there who can write on this topic and expose this continual attack against rail and public transport. We have a rail system, it works. The Newcastle section actually makes money and the users want it to remain. We have buses but they do not make money. The two systems are mutually compatible but serve a different customer base. Train services are primarily inter city services bring passengers directly into the city. Bus services basically serve local transport. Soon the Cabinet of NSW will wake up to the fact that they have a rail service to Newcastle and it is actually in place just needs improving and tidying up in the town corridor. Emphasis must be on promoting efficient use of the service not its destruction! We have had passenger rail services Maitland to Newcastle for nearly 150 years. Are we being regarded as a colonial outpost where any half-baked scheme can be tried out on the Newcastle public transport users? Are we being softened up for the discontinuation of the Maitland Newcastle service and the cutting of the rail at Broadmeadow? Costa will cost us our city our public transport services and our heritage. Where did the Labor Party find this chap? Was he ever elected? Surely its possible to replace Costa before he brings down the whole government. It would be nice if there were an alternative government. Would Labor talk better sense if they were in opposition? Cheers, Doug P.S. Test the bus way in Sydney where there is a larger market ---------------------------------------------------------------- Back to Issues Index |