Comments on: Rees’ rail disaster is a class betrayal

By: Trevor Cook

Trevor Cook — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:12:55 +0000

Absolutely, generic, it’s not just stupid. When I heard it I felt like the oxygen had been sucked out of my lungs – it is just ssooo insane and sooo offensive

By: Generic Person

Generic Person — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:03:52 +0000

Yes, this policy, as I said across the road in William Bowe’s blog, is a prime example of the gross imbecility that characterisies policies of the NSW Government.

The areas in which the metro will travel already have bloody light rail! The NW has no worthy public transport at all! Argh!!!!

By: Trevor Cook

Trevor Cook — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:01:32 +0000

I was talking to a European visitor earlier this year who commented on how wonderful Sydney’s transport was … but she was staying in Darling Harbour. I doubt if she was staying in many other parts of Sydney she would have had the same opinion

Anyway, the most stunning part of this week (love and traffic and now the train to nowhere) is that it indicates that Rees is a political nincompoop.

And what does he owe Verity Firth that he should destroy the ALP throughout much of Sydney in order to save her? It’s downright weird

By: Ben Haslem

Ben Haslem — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:31:47 +0000

Trev,
Spot on. I made the same remark in the office. Rozelle has buses and is close to ferries and even a light rail service. Why does it need a metro? Oh, that’s right, Verity Firth’s seat! Madness.
If he used his brain, he’d build a road tunnel from the end of the M4 under Rozelle and the harbour to link up with the CBD, North Sydney and the Gore Hill Expressway at the Falcon Street interchange, freeing up the Western distributor and making it easier for those people who have to drive from Western Sydney to those locations. Plus build a train line through north-west Sydney. Connect the Eastern Suburbs line to the North Shore line and so the list goes on. Of course this should have been started 10 years ago.