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Are you safe to breathe at Sydney’s Town Hall station?

October 14, 2008 – 5:24 pm, by Trevor Cook
This is the air vent in the elevator between platforms 1/2 and 4 at Sydney’s Town Hall station. Do you like that layer of black crap?

This is the air vent in the elevator between platforms 1/2 and 4 at Sydney’s Town Hall station. Do you like that layer of black crap?

Photo lifted from Stilgherrian who has more commentary on the state of our underground trains.

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    Stilgherrian
    Posted October 15, 2008 at 8:52 am | Permalink

    Thanks for picking up this story, Trevor. The questions which I think need to be asked here are whether the air is tested regularly for “particulate matter”, how often, and what the results are.

    Sydney’s Town Hall station is already dangerous enough at peak times. With platforms so packed with commuters that there’s almost no room to move, it’d just take a brawl to break out or somesuch disturbance and you’d have people tumbling in front of trains.

    Public servants and politicians alike have seen the passenger figures rising over the years and have known this situation was going to eventuate. That nothing has been done, even now, is a testament to the sheer incompetence of NSW governments of every flavour.

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    Trevor Cook
    Posted October 15, 2008 at 9:13 am | Permalink

    A combination of high employment levels and high petrol prices have been driving commuter numbers through the roof, so there must be a real worry about what Town Hall station might be like during the hot summer days ahead

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