Must be a slow news day, the HCMT sets have been phased into regular service since January 2021. This isn’t new news
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The Armadale Line will be shut down for up to 18 months starting first quarter of 2023 to facilitate the elevation of the rail line and removal of 12x railway crossings.
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Surely they could shut it, and then move along and open as they remove crossings?
It’s a much larger project than just removing level crossings, it’s similar in scope to Skyrail in Melbourne plus rebuilding the current terminus station further down the line, plus duplicating and electrifying past that current terminus by another 10km or so.
Unlike the Skyrail project in Melbourne, there’s not enough rail reserve or space for temporary stations which necessitates a closing the line in the impacted area.
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A snap train strike in Sydney today caught me completely unaware. Luckily, I was able to catch a bus from Lewisham to the city. I can never work out why some people catch busses instead of trains.
The bus was noisier, older, less spacious and less smooth than a train.
If I have a choice, I always pick trains.
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It’s not a strike. The government have decided overnight to not run anything as part of the negotiation, rather than run trains on “master roster”, which is weekday running, instead of the Sunday running. This was agreed to with the Fair Work Commission on Saturday, so they’ve had almost all weekend to bring everything back.
I’m trying to figure out what they have been doing since… (shrugs shoulders)
New speed limits for scooters when travelling on footpaths in Queensland. However, they can now use bikeways.
I feel sorry for you in reading a couple article it seems that both of the parties are blaming each other for the massive shutdown. I feel sorry for the passengers (not office workers) who are trying to go and do the daily duties as well as parents. I am reading that the breakdown has something to do with it safety concerns? Typical liberal government always blaming those who are fighting for equal pay / safety.
Yeah I’m trying to figure out that too because it seemed like a snap decision and they already started blaming the others. Stupid liberals.
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They use discord?
Getting more and more common for discord to be used in professional environments for this purpose.
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How did that person get access to that conversation? Surely it was private, otherwise I would be reconsidering their judgement.
Someone’s leaked it - theres another screenshot where Bevan says the complaints the SMH got were just people on Twitter
The whole thing is farcical - there’s an important difference between the two (and the SMH should be reporting factually) - but it’s also a situation where for many, the difference is immaterial - the trains weren’t running.
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It’s Slack.
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It’s not a private convo. Despite it saying 34 members, anyone in SMH could view it on Slack.
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So there is a mole who provided that to the Labor guy jordies?
The Volvo BZL Electric Bus is now in service, running the Joondalup CAT.
Elliott has reportedly proposed the CBD station, which runs parallel with Pitt Street, be named after Australia’s first Indigenous commissioned army officer, Captain Reginald Saunders, who served in World War II and Korean War. Saunders died in Sydney in 1990.
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