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| Subject: Spending millions for nothing: OZschwitz transport planners off the rails with metro plans Mon Jan 22, 2018 12:59 am | |
| The threatened train driver's strike next Monday is in large part an unfortunate reaction to the pressures that are arising as Sydney prepares to accommodate its new metro, which may prove more the triumph of technocratic evangelism and private sector opportunism than a carefully grafted enhancement to a complex system.
The rail system is vital to the functioning of the city and will become even more so as the population grows and condenses. Moving towards a metro-style rail operation allows Sydney to respond to these demands through more services, but the pressures of putting such a system in place have been exacerbated by a high-risk division between Transport for NSW, as it oversees the development of the line and timetable changes, and the hands-on experience of frontline operators who must make the revised system and timetables work.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/sydney-transport-planners-off-the-rails-with-metro-plans-20180119-h0l2k1.html |
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