The Department of Transport spokesperson, one Brad Arnold, espoused on ABC Melbourne radio, that there would be hundreds of extra train services to cater for the Taylor Swift concerts, (my words now) each evening catering to crowds of 95,000. This was repeated in ABC news broadcasts.
Our evening peak train system pretty well runs at maximum capacity. With a 6.30 concert start, I can't imagine where all the extra trains, drivers and track capacity come from to add hundreds of services.
Governments and the Department of Transport will pump out their propaganda. But it is very wrong for our ABC to pump out such outrageous nonsense. I call our ABC into question for what I see as lies, and I did.
What makes the lies worse is that our train system seemed to work quite well to clear the crowds after the concerts. There may have been an extra train or two.
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There is a proposal to build a new 20,000 seat sports arena near us, in an area with terrible traffic. The answer was the subway station at the site. They have now admitted, at peak capacity, it would take the subway system about 90 minutes to handle that many passengers at that station, no one is going to be happy with a 90 minute wait after a game finishes late at night.
ReplyDeleteYes, that is ridiculous TP. Hopefully some common sense will prevail. There were 90,000 for each of Swift's three concerts with the vast majority using trams and trains to get there. I heard they has all gone in half an hour.
DeleteMeanwhile Adelaide battles on with its too few trains that are often running late or not at all because of problems with the lines. How I wish for a return of the 1950s city wide tram system.
ReplyDeleteThat would be so good River. We didn't have any problem with the Belair train that we used a few times when we last visited but I don't think the frequency was very good. Trams are brilliant for short distances. It is a shame all of Australia lost trams, bar one city.
DeleteNews reporting is generally very lazy. Nothing is questioned and the most outrageous statements go unchallenged.
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