NSW Premier Morris Iemma has apologised unreservedly for last night’s peak-hour train chaos in Sydney and has promised voters it will not happen again if Labor is returned to government.
Rail services to North Sydney and beyond ground to a halt…
Is it time for Morris to step down as Premier?
Update: I walked over the bridge tonight, and noted that the train made it a bit further south than last time: it was stuck in the middle of the bridge. Walking proved to be more effective, I think, than waiting for rail buses - I’ve never seen such long queues in my years of working in North Sydney.
A lot of fragments of conversations (that’s all you hear when you rush over the bridge) were recalling the last broken-down train, but there wasn’t a lot of calling for accountability.
Perhaps it was just a lofty political promise made in the shadow of a looming election.
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According to RailCorp, the required maintenance is underway but crucially, we won’t see the first benefits of those efforts for another 18 months. Is that a problem for Iemma or RailCorp ? More importantly, can anyone make it happen faster ?
The de-tangling of the lines won’t happen for 18 months, but surely the fixing of the hatches could happen quicker. I think my issue is more with how crazy that promise was, and that a train broke down in almost exactly the same way, less than 6 months later.
You seem to be using the words “politician” and “promise” in a way that doesn’t make sense