The SMH says that there are problems with the proposed plan to run all North West Rail Link trains through Epping and Chatswood. The article proposes that some trains should run via Epping and Strathfield.
Read the article here
WSPTU hopes to be able to offer some commentary on these issues soon.
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A few points deserve the community's, and WSPTU's, attention.
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decides which new rail lines are to be built (in this case, the Liberals,and the
North West Line), then the agencies have to work out how to best absorb the new
train services into the railway network, which is already stretched to the limit of
its capacity at many points during peak hours?
2 - Would this cart-before-horse scenario be acceptable in any other aparently
civilised city in the world?
3 - Is this a professional, and efficient way, to develop the city's rail network?
4 - Where is the necessary commitment to a cross-harbour line, which is required, to
make the North-West / City / South-West route work properly?
5 - how can the resulting compromise in train running be anything like what is
needed by the community, as opposed to what is possible under the constraints?
6 - Why does the community have to rely on the "Herald", good as it is, to engage in
this transport development debate?
7 - Is anything likely to change?
Kevin Eadie