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May 30, 2005
Sydney's public transport woes
The Herald is running a series about the sorry state of Sydney. What particulary disturbing for me is the fact that only 10.6 per cent of weekday trips to work are made on public transport (50 years ago half of all trips are made on public transport), the train lost 6 million passanger last year (not surprising considering the state of City Rail), and last year 315,645 new vehicles were registered in NSW (a 14.5 per cent increase on 1997), two-thirds of them in Sydney.
This is nuts, the public transport system is in a shamble. I'm lucky to live only 15/20 minutes bus ride to work (and back home), but the bus is so unfrequent and if I miss the last bus at 6:27pm that's it, I might as well stay back and do more work until 7:30 and get a cab home (work pays for it). For the entire year last year I had to drive to work because there's no public transport to my workplace, and from all the news with City Rail that I've been hearing I think I'm quite lucky not to use it. To make things worst, the state government loooooves building roads, tunnel and motorway. The new cross city tunnel will open 12th June, four months ahead of schedule. Geezus, if we dig a tunnel across the CBD and finish it 4 months ahead of schedule, why can't we fix our public transport system?
For a city as big as Sydney, the public transport system is just retarded.
Posted by vhadiant at May 30, 2005 10:38 PM
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