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Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva
Exactly... the infrastructure should have been re-purposed. It was there, and in very good condition. What a waste of good hardware.
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Yep, like any state public transport system, no governments actually asks the people who use it what they need.
NSW runs a system which doesn't interconnect with anything else.
They run a bus network in regional towns that runs independently to a train network so nothing meets each other and they wonder why there isn't much patronage on certain routes.
NB.
example 1.of stupidity.
There is a bus service that runs from Woy Woy station on the Central Coast to Patonga (peak times) that misses the Patonga to Palm Beach ferry service by 5 mins. Next ferry is 3 hours. Commuters have constantly complained that more uses would use it to get to the upper Northern beaches for work if it connected. But no one is listening for the last 15 years.
example 2 of stupidity.
Sydney to Newcastle trains regularly are held up at Gosford which make them run so because they run late, some clown decides, "its running late so we might as well stop at non stopping station" making them even later.
Classic express train turned into a all station train.
making it late to meet any Hunter Valley line train.
example 3 of stupidity.
XPT from Albury (Melbourne) trains pulls into central at 8pm every night missing the North Coast XPT by 20mins.
Which calls for an overnight stay in Sydney.
example 4 of stupidity.
Express trains constantly timetabled to follow a freight train. This one is brilliant piece of work.