{"id":5115,"date":"2012-03-17T19:34:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T08:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=5115"},"modified":"2012-03-17T19:34:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T08:34:57","slug":"trains-whos-right-and-whos-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2012\/03\/trains-whos-right-and-whos-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Trains: Who’s Right and Who’s Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve made a bit of noise of late over the state of some of the infrastructure in Melbourne’s train network – namely with respect to the consistent problems at Newport Station. I wrote about it here<\/a>, and have been discussing it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Much of the usual buckpassing as to who owns the problem has been continuing.<\/p>\n

Today I read these with amazement:<\/p>\n

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Survey Shows Percentage Decrease In Busy Metro Trains<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n

“Results of the Department of Transport’s latest October 2011 survey of Metro’s peak hour trains show a drop in the percentage of weekday peak period trains carrying more than 798 passengers a trip to 11.5 per cent of measured trains from October 2010’s 11.7 per cent, Minister for Public Transport Terry Mulder said today.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Changes Fail To Fix Train Crush<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n

“The state government’s peak passenger load survey, taken in October, recorded 60 peak-hour services that exceeded the overcrowding benchmark of 798 passengers, a small jump from 58 trains in October 2010.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The government says the number of overcrowded trains is down. The media says the number is up.<\/p>\n

What the hell is going on? Who’s right?<\/p>\n

Probably nobody – but please start doing something, okay?<\/p>\n

Public “transport” is currently something of a joke in this state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve made a bit of noise of late over the state of some of the infrastructure in Melbourne’s train network – namely with respect to the consistent problems at Newport Station. I wrote about it here, and have been discussing it here. Much of the usual buckpassing as to who owns the problem has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[349,503],"class_list":["post-5115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transport","tag-metrotrains","tag-springst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}