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Just when you thought the NSW Government couldn’t get worse

May 4, 2009 – 9:14 am

A stunning admission:
THE CBD Metro will run as much as 87 per cent empty during the height of the morning rush hour when it opens in 2015, the Transport Minister, David Campbell, has conceded.
Campbell must be one of the dopiest Ministers in a very, very ordinary front bench.

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Daily Tele details Carr’s rail failures

October 27, 2008 – 5:42 am

Another hard-hitting piece:
TEN years after unveiling its bold transport plan for Sydney, the State Government has failed to build a single one of the five major rail projects it promised.
In a damning indictment, The Daily Telegraph has found that of the five projects outlined by then-premier Bob Carr – fast trains to Newcastle and [...]

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Rees’ rail disaster is a class betrayal

October 25, 2008 – 8:31 am

Anyone with the slightest understanding of politics would have known that replacing a much-touted metro-link to Sydney’s grossly under-serviced north-west with a cheaper but utterly unnecessary rail link to two inner-west suburbs would be a complete PR disaster.
Nathan Rees, however, is clueless. Don’t forget the bizarre ‘love and traffic’ and ‘black panther’ episodes. The [...]

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