Comments on: At Town Hall station? You breathe this!

By: Mikey

Mikey — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:09:45 +0000

Why are Sydney’s trains sooooo bad? Even American cities manage to put Sydney to shame – the Metro in Washington DC, the BART in San Francisco, the NY subway, the New Jersey PATH trains. For heavens sake, even LA manages to run a train service in better shape than Sydney. Dirty trains; rundown and crowded stations; increasingly grumpy and unpleasant commuters. 14 bucks to ride to the airport from the city on what is otherwise a regular, beaten up City Rail train? Why does it take two or three people waving flags on the platform; a guard and a driver to accomplish what most other cities achieve with one, or even no people? I could go on and on and on … but I have a train to catch.

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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:24:27 +0000

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By: yewenyi

yewenyi — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:07:54 +0000

When I used to go caving, caves were always cool pleasant places. Sydney’s underground is the exact opposite. I do not know how they manage it, I mean they even have trains acting like plungers pumping air through the system. I think it is the humidity that kills things. An aircon would reduce this problem.

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:01:07 +0000

@Michael Meloni: While I haven’t travelled much, I can confirm that in hot, humid Bangkok the subway is pleasantly air-conditioned. The NSW state government has no excuse but their own incompetence.

By: Michael Meloni

Michael Meloni — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:07:02 +0000

Why can’t someone make train stations cool? At least the covered ones. Surely it couldn’t be that hard. Toowong Station in Brisbane is the only station I know of up here that has air circulator things on the platform. Central is like a sauna.