Mind the gap
Posted by Melissa on | May 23, 2007
We are all tired of suffering the daily commute on trains that:
A) Turn up late
B) Turn up late and heaving with human cargo
C) Don’t turn up.
For those of us lucky enough to avoid the daily commute (like me), we are tired of reading about everyone else’s misfortune and how little is being done to improve our public transport system in the face of skyrocketing fuel prices and looming environment disaster. Yippee, new trains by 2008. The local authorities who govern our illustrious city’s centre are investing much energy in extending parking meter hours to raise revenues lost by reduced numbers choosing to drive into the city to work. Why the deafening silence from the legislators when the complaints from their constituents are becoming louder and louder?
I read with interest how commuters in Buenos Aires make their frustration plain…
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May 24th, 2007 @ 12:53 pm
Go the Argentinians!
Australians are too polite or indifferent to effectively complain.
May 24th, 2007 @ 3:52 pm
I don’t bother with getting trains or getting on a bus in Sydney anymore.
1. They’re never on time
2. They’re usually full of old people, school kids and fat people.
3. They smell (esp the trains) of a cross between wet dog, piss and stale vomit.
4. They’re hot in summer, and wet when it rains.
5. People treat ticket machines like they are trying to solve the da vinci code.
I just cycle around now or take my motorbike out.
May 24th, 2007 @ 9:35 pm
Apathy was ever lurking on the dark side of the great Australian easy-going, laconic, whatever. I think we gave up long ago- no differentiation between the major political parties, no belief that we can make a difference = fuck it I’ll just take care of myself. Apart from a few grass roots exceptions, social activism is pretty much dead here.