Today has been a challenge relying on CityRail with severely delayed services that were not CityRail failures. Someone had decided today was a good day to die in Petersham. The Police operation to subdue that person from harming themselves caused a severe delay across the entire city bound network.
I personally sat at North Sydney for 30 minutes, however 2 minutes before the train continues onthe outlook was for as long again. The flow on effects are continuing with a train to Newcastle seen with standing room only. I pity anyone standing for that distance. The platforms resemble the train station from “Slumdog Millionaire” presently. However they were worse 10 minutes ago.
The network has not coped at all due to an indiviuals act. A single point of failure in the network brings this cities main public transport system crashing to it’s knees. I do not hold CityRail at fault, rather the successive governments of all persuasions had the vision to ensure network robustness.
I am hopeful that the network will recover before the service I want leaves in a little under 1 hour. I then hope that Bobbie is on time, and not screwed by work and or her public transport links so that we can get hope before 9:00pm.
Or rather corrected a post tag!
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