Media Release | Friday, 10 May 2013

NEW DRAFT TRAIN TIMETABLE SHOULD BE RELEASED FOR PUBLIC CONSULTATION

The new draft CityRail timetable should be released for public consultation so commuters can have their say, Shadow Transport Minister Penny Sharpe said today.

The draft timetable – which is set to be implemented in October – has been circulated within Transport NSW, but commuters have been left in the dark.

There are currently 308 stations on the rail network, and some 2800 daily trips between Sydney, the Central Coast, Hunter, Illawarra, Blue Mountains and Goulburn.

“I’m calling on Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian to release the draft train timetable so commuters can provide feedback before it is rolled out,” Ms Sharpe said.

“Commuters have a right to know what the new timetable will mean for them.

Thanks to everyone who came along tonight and to the 800 people who voted in this year’s awards.

The boo-off decided that the 2013 Golden GLORIA went to NSW Roads Minister Duncan Gay for tearing up the Rainbow Crossing at Taylor Square.

Minister Gay even turned up to accept the award...

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Are things getting worse under an O’Farrell and Stoner Government?

Two years into their term, the answer is yes. A short perusal of this edition of Red Leather shows where we are up to. Those that are being hit the hardest include public housing tenants, pensioners and injured workers.
 
As the Government tries to sell off everything including the poles and wires of our electricity assets, Port Botany and Port Kembla, and franchising the ferries; they are also starting to look at school sporting fields. We can expect more to come.
 
The support of the Christian Democrats and the Shooters party also means that compromises with the right wing cross-benchers have led or are leading to:

• Hunting in national parks
• The reopening of duck hunting
• Reinstatement of oaths to the Queen and monarchy (rather than the people of NSW)
• Wider access to shooting in schools
• Consideration of bills that seek to turn back the clock on hard won gains in many areas including for women and the GLBTI community.

Media Release | Monday May 6, 2013

John Robertson MP, NSW Opposition Leader
Penny Sharpe MLC, Shadow Minister for Transport

ANOTHER DAY OF CHAOS FOR CITYRAIL COMMUTERS – BEREJIKLIAN MUST APOLOGISE

Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian should apologise and take responsibility after yet another horrendous delay on the CityRail network this morning resulted in tens of thousands of commuters being late to work.

The system was thrown into chaos following a failure to finish weekend trackwork at Homebush. Trains arrived up to 30 minutes late, skipped stops and were out of timetable order – with commuters affected across the Airport and East Hills, Bankstown, Inner West, North Shore, Northern, South, Western and Blue Mountains lines.

“Minister Berejiklian should apologise and take responsibility for the latest major inconvenience that commuters suffered this morning on the rail network,” Opposition Leader John Robertson said today.

“Today tens of thousands of commuters were late to work, school and university. They missed meetings and medical appointments. They missed flights.

“People are fed up with these system meltdowns – and they’re becoming just as tired of the O’Farrell Government’s excuses.