Melbourne's Public Transport – So wonderful
It has been getting some press lately and it seems even the government are paying attention, but the reality is that NOTHING is being done. In all the years we have had to endure a straining and bulging system the actual system has not changed. No more trains, no significant changes in timetables, no extra services, no improvements to ticketing, loading, performance, nothing.
So if anybody wonders what it’s like, for those that are in a long queue on a major road (another symptom of the overall problem) then over the next few weeks I may take and post some photo’s here, showing the extent and reality of the situation. Like this one…
About 5.45pm I returned back to flinders street from Brighton to catch a train out toward Sydenham. This is what I was presented with, and it is NORMAL! The trains were not late (much) and this is what was waiting. It actually shows two problems, one that the situation for transport is bad and also the other, that Australians, and Melbournians are leaving work well after 5pm, if they havent left town after closing, why are they still waiting for trains at almost 6pm?
So yeah, unfortunately I didn’t take a picture on the train that I caught, so many faces staring at me from a standing position I felt I would have been beaten to death for even thinking of taking a photo. Really, in that next train that left from Flinders Street it was packed, and through the tunnel it got worse, more people loading on at every stop. Past Footscray we went with few people getting off there, it got no better. I didn’t see anybody that I could point to as a politician, I think they all had chauffeur driven cars getting them home earlier than the rush hour so it went without saying, the people responsible for this fiasco do not know what’s going on, they don’t have to pay for the tickets to ride on this cattle service, and speaking of cattle, they get treated better than the people do.
The UK has begun banning Australian wool because of mulesing, well they should stop using Australian products because of exactly the same reason, this country is treating it’s workforce like cattle and then smacking them with a red hot branding iron to make a point. So wake up, get more trains and busses and improve the situation because our states and cities are not coping with the flood of population increase and if you want more babies, then they better have somewhere to live, work and commute when they grow up. Stop talking about options, stop introducing new ticket schemes that never actually get started and operating, just DO SOMETHING. Oh and this great idea of removing seats so we can cram more people into a carriage is (dare I say it) reminding me of a German transport system of the 40′s…
So I will take more pictures, just camera photo’s to share and perhaps a new section of this site might soon appear to take your submissions also, or perhaps, like the one above, send them through to the newspapers and other places from your mobile to get the actual picture, the reality and the situation out there to the people that matter.