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#publictransport

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Emma Davidson

Are you in the ACT? Do you want easier bus travel to Molonglo Valley?
Sign this ACT Legislative Assembly e-petition by 10 June to get dedicated bus lanes:
epetitions.parliament.act.gov.
Having buses is great, but having them stuck in car traffic is such a missed opportunity to enable people to get where they need to be faster.
Andrew Braddock (Greens MLA) is the petition sponsor.
#bus #PublicTransport #canberra

epetitions.parliament.act.gov.auBus Lanes for Molonglo ACT Legislative Assembly
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jed

This next departure display greets passengers at #Sydney Central station as they walk through the expanded main concourse towards the intercity departures at the grand concourse.

#SydneyTrains in their infinite wisdom have decided to display every suburban line on its own screen and cram all regional departures onto one. This means a passenger coming from a metro or suburban train to find their platform for a regional departure won't be able to see their train unless it's the next one. There's a host of morning departures so that's quite likely.

Not to mention suburban trains always leave from the same platforms and regional trains can be more variable. Hard to see how this is useful.

Photo of the digital next departure display near platform 9 at central
#PublicTransport
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ABC Feeds

Why a problem on one train sent Sydney's rail network into meltdown
By Catherine Hanrahan

The blank signs, "major disruptions" and panic on the platforms, it was an all too familiar scene for Sydney's commuters. So what caused the meltdown?

abc.net.au/news/2025-05-22/syd

ABC News · Sydney's train pain was a domino effect of things going wrongBy Catherine Hanrahan
#Trains#PublicTransport#Government
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Jules

Wheelchair user misses train and branded ‘rude’ by station staff after they refused to get ramp
independent.co.uk/travel/news-

It is insane that it's 2025 and wheelchair users are still unable to use a significant chunk of our national transport infrastructure

The Independent · Wheelchair user misses train and branded ‘rude’ by station staff after they refused to get rampBy Rebecca Whittaker
#Ableism#PublicTransport
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AJ Sadauskas

A really insightful analysis of why this keeps happening in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/21/why-are-sydney-trains-delays-so-bad-nsw-rail-network

Along with archaic practices (carbon paper notes?!?!), interlining is singled out:

"While technical issues are unavoidable on a rail network that hosts 400m trips each year, the latest outage has reignited the nagging question on the minds of millions of Sydneysiders: how can just one incident on one train at a station with multiple tracks bring down an entire city’s rail network?

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"The answer to the first question is easier to comprehend, and dates back to plans made in the early 1900s – including a famous vision for new lines from Sydney Harbour Bridge engineer John Bradfield – about how to expand the rail network to cater to a growing Sydney.

"Rather than a master plan for new lines independent of each other – as modern metro and underground systems were increasingly being built throughout the 20th century – the approach for Sydney was to take advantage of the huge capacity of the six tracks that comprise its main western railway between Central and Strathfield.

"In cities such as London, commuters can avoid a bottleneck or outage on one line by switching to another to dodge a problem section of track. But almost all heavy rail services in Sydney’s suburban network – including trains to the Central Coast, Blue Mountains, City Circle or Airport – are routed to pass through the Central-Strathfield corridor.

“'A lot of our lines are tangled with each other,' Sydney Trains CEO, Matt Longland, said. 'At this critical pinch point … one incident in a location like this can bring down a significant part of the network.'"

Coincidentally, interlining is also why issues on one line end up affecting multiple lines on Melbourne's network as well.

#auspol #train #trains #rail #railway #railways #PublicTransport #PublicTransportation #Sydney #NSWpol #Vicpol #Vicgov #NSWgov

The Guardian · A single incident brought Sydney’s train network to a standstill – again. Here’s why it keeps happeningBy Elias Visontay
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