CityRail - still training Sydney? (2 Viewers)

[klh]

i think you read about that in MX, the lady that wet herself? that was regarding the non functioning toilets on the intercity ones...

i just hate the seats on cityrail trains..the millenium ones hve ok seating and the tangaras that are intercity as well as the old style intercity trains are nice too. either the seats are sagging, and you dont have head rests.

started ft work..so morning trains i take, never have seats so i just go earlier, i get onto a nicer train and i start earlier getting 15mins of OT whne i work lol...

but its going to take a long time o fix this when you have to maintain services, the cost is taken out to invest in infrstructure and than once thats finished, theyll have more trains, but im a bit angry at the building of stations and all that glamour..idk, just fix the system, car parking, accessibility and more services please.

 

[HotShot]

I would piss on the train if I had an excuse.

 

[Serius]

eww gross, i would covertly piss in a bottle or something

 

[Collin]

I probably don't catch the train anywhere near as much as many of you do, but my experiences has generally been positive.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

I've noticed that the people who seem to complain most about public transport are those who never use it.

 

[Tulipa]

I use Cityrail every single day of the week.

Gordon - Wynard two days a week
Gordon - Sutherland two days a week
Gordon - Nth Wollongong one day a week.

Overall, I don't mind them that much, yeah sometimes the trains are absolutely boiling, yeah sometimes they're late and yeah the no toilet trains that are intercity are absofuckinglutely annoying but if you take PT that much then you know this. My train from Nth Gong is alway a "non toilet" train so I go before I get on the train. Not that hard to do.

 

[tommykins]

i catch the train 6 days a week (5 to school, 1 when i go out) and i've never really had any problem with it. I've been catching it for almost 4 years now, out of the 4, i've only been late or seriously delayed MAX 10 times. i dont mind the train being late for 5-10 minutes, beacuse im a patient individual perhaps. but waht shits me is the dipshit students that bitch about the trains, whereas theyre not paying for the fare. i know that our parents taxes are spent to pay off our travel expenses, but still we're getting a cheap price and hve no right to bitch about it. what do studnets do when they get home anwyays? what they can't wait 5-10 minutes to go on msn and talk about how worthless and gay their school is and then wank over some gay porn? just be patient dipshits.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

i guess some people just cant wait for their gay porn.

 

[Josie]

I know I can't wait for my gay porn.

Regardless of paying or having it subsidised, users still have a right to comment on services. And I'd venture to say a lot of the people who complain are those who commute to uni/full time jobs every day, and they're not getting a free ride.

 

[Tulipa]

Uh *raises hand* That's me.

Yes the blackout in the tunnel on the North Shore was shit but that stuff happens. I was late about a month ago cause a dude was on the tracks at Artarmon and there was damage to signalling lights at Mt. Ku-ring-gai. Not their fault and yet a ton of people complained about it. There will never be a perfect day where everything runs on time and everyone is satisfied.

I'd also be more inclined to complain about the people on the train, rather than the service itself.

 

[Triangulum]

I'd also be more inclined to complain about the people on the train, rather than the service itself.

Yeah, I hate it when 17-year-old girls have loud arguments with their boyfriend/father of their unborn child on their phones. I mean, I understand that they're under a lot of emotional strain, but the whole carriage doesn't need to know about it.

 

[Tulipa]

Actually it's the leering old men, bratty little kids and middle aged assholes who hog the center seat that piss me off most.

I love empty carriages

 

[bazookajoe]

Yeah, having 11am Uni starts are great for the empty carriages. Who else thinks Cityrail runs/operates better than Sydney Buses?

 

[poloktim]

My train from Nth Gong is alway a "non toilet" train so I go before I get on the train. Not that hard to do.

It's not, but then it's also ludicrous to suggest that everybody has the ability to hold it in as well as you might. For example, older people, pregnant women, mothers, young children, etc.

Good that you can go to the toilet before and hold it in for however long you need to, but don't assume everybody else can.

 

[Tulipa]

There is a toilet on the platform right at Nth Gong. I go from there alllll the way to Central. That is at the max only a one hour and forty seven minute train trip. Unless you have a bladder problem (which I acknowledge that people have, in particular pregnant women) then I really don't see a reason for complaining and most of the people that do are able bodied, with no reason not to go before they get on.

 

[Josie]

At the risk of repeating polok- we're not talking about your bladder performance, we're talking about an hour and a half on a hot uncomfortable train, as a child, elderly person, pregnant woman, or anyone without your bladder of steel.

 

[bazookajoe]

I was late about a month ago cause a dude was on the tracks at Artarmon and there was damage to signalling lights at Mt. Ku-ring-gai. Not their fault and yet a ton of people complained about it.

Yeah had that problem as well, and I'm pretty sure I yelled about Cityrail for a good while, before realising they can't really be put at fault for that.
But it was my first day of Uni and I missed my first lecture,and was late for my second. This was the only major trouble I've had when taking public transport every school day and most weekends for the past 6 and a bit years

 

[Tulipa]

I've never been on a train from Nth Gong to Central or vice versa that was not air conditioned. Never. They're either Tangara's with no bathrooms or the intercity one's that always seem to be fine.

And again pregnant women, older people, I get that but the people who complain (and I hear it on the train) are uni students who couldn't be bothered. They announce that it's a non toilet train before it gets there and still people don't listen.

EDIT: bazookajoe, I missed a 9am meeting but my boss was late too so that was fine.

 

[Josie]

I've never been on a train from Nth Gong to Central or vice versa that was not air conditioned. Never.

Count yourself lucky then I've been on many.

 

[Tulipa]

Count yourself lucky then I've been on many.

Serious? Intercity or the old carriages?

They don't use them in peak hour or midday. Late night trains?