Comments on: Labor supports public transport http://www.redrag.net/2005/01/31/public-transport/ "The thinking Laborite would as lief be found in bed with a cobra as in a committee room armed with 'arguments' from the Tory press." --- Truth, Perth, 19 June 1915. Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:29:18 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: anthony http://www.redrag.net/2005/01/31/public-transport/comment-page-1/#comment-8189 anthony Tue, 01 Feb 2005 05:15:10 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2005/01/31/public-transport/#comment-8189 I have fond memories of a Mosman Park Liberal arguing for the protection of Mandurah from the railway as if it were the home of some lost Amazonian tribe. I have fond memories of a Mosman Park Liberal arguing for the protection of Mandurah from the railway as if it were the home of some lost Amazonian tribe.

]]> By: david tiley http://www.redrag.net/2005/01/31/public-transport/comment-page-1/#comment-8188 david tiley Tue, 01 Feb 2005 04:02:06 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2005/01/31/public-transport/#comment-8188 Here's a tip. Back in the olden days, ending under Kennett, the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works had a tunnelling group. Worked on the poo farm at Werribee, then dug the tunnels for the Thompson Dam, then the City Loop. Run for a couple of generations. Saved a fortune, was the only group of engineers continuously involved in tunnel building in Australia. Closed of course, so the subsequent Burnley Tunnel was built by contractors who weren't specialists. The point? They got jobs digging other tunnels around the world. Hong Kong. It sounds like the Perth railway management could do the same thing. That'll learn them privatisers. Here’s a tip. Back in the olden days, ending under Kennett, the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works had a tunnelling group. Worked on the poo farm at Werribee, then dug the tunnels for the Thompson Dam, then the City Loop. Run for a couple of generations.

Saved a fortune, was the only group of engineers continuously involved in tunnel building in Australia. Closed of course, so the subsequent Burnley Tunnel was built by contractors who weren’t specialists.

The point? They got jobs digging other tunnels around the world. Hong Kong. It sounds like the Perth railway management could do the same thing. That’ll learn them privatisers.

]]> By: Robert http://www.redrag.net/2005/01/31/public-transport/comment-page-1/#comment-8179 Robert Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:46:31 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2005/01/31/public-transport/#comment-8179 What did it, Nic? What did it, Nic?

]]> By: Nic White http://www.redrag.net/2005/01/31/public-transport/comment-page-1/#comment-8178 Nic White Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:52:28 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2005/01/31/public-transport/#comment-8178 Fuck the swing vote. Unless the ALP make some seriously bad policies later in the campagin Im squarely in their camp now. Fuck the swing vote. Unless the ALP make some seriously bad policies later in the campagin Im squarely in their camp now.

]]> By: Frank Calabrese http://www.redrag.net/2005/01/31/public-transport/comment-page-1/#comment-8176 Frank Calabrese Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:23:38 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2005/01/31/public-transport/#comment-8176 I reckon he'll reprivatise the ENTIRE Transit Guards back to Chubb, or get John Ryan and Secureforce to run em- his solution would be to play Elvis over the PA systems :-) Also, they'd privatise the suburban trains to someone like Connex. I reckon he’ll reprivatise the ENTIRE Transit Guards back to Chubb, or get John Ryan and Secureforce to run em- his solution would be to play Elvis over the PA systems :-)

Also, they’d privatise the suburban trains to someone like Connex.

]]> By: Robert http://www.redrag.net/2005/01/31/public-transport/comment-page-1/#comment-8175 Robert Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:14:31 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2005/01/31/public-transport/#comment-8175 <em>reminds me of certain coalition pollies in the Werstern Suburbs</em> Yes indeed. I bet it was filmed in Nedlands --- Liberal heartland. reminds me of certain coalition pollies in the Werstern Suburbs

Yes indeed. I bet it was filmed in Nedlands — Liberal heartland.

]]> By: Frank Calabrese http://www.redrag.net/2005/01/31/public-transport/comment-page-1/#comment-8174 Frank Calabrese Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:12:38 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2005/01/31/public-transport/#comment-8174 Totally Agree !! Also, The libs under Eric The Tractor Driver Charlton, Closed the Midland Railway Workshops. Scrapped the highly successful Passenger Service Assistants who were a bo0n for people with disabilities like myself, and replaced with a vastly reduced combination of Customer Serice Assistants during the day and Private Security Guards at night. This was as a result of a massive media beat up of "Violence on trains", which involved 3 girls who had their Jeans stolen - What wasn't mentioned, was that the actual offence happened AWAY from Railway property !!!! Also, Court re-privatised the Bus Companies and are now complaining that there isn't enough bsses on weekends and Public holidays !!!! That Nationals Ad shown on 7 News tonight showing the "city politician" drivinghis kids to School across the road reminds me of certain coalition pollies in the Werstern Suburbs :-) Totally Agree !!

Also, The libs under Eric The Tractor Driver Charlton, Closed the Midland Railway Workshops. Scrapped the highly successful Passenger Service Assistants who were a bo0n for people with disabilities like myself, and replaced with a vastly reduced combination of Customer Serice Assistants during the day and Private Security Guards at night.

This was as a result of a massive media beat up of “Violence on trains”, which involved 3 girls who had their Jeans stolen – What wasn’t mentioned, was that the actual offence happened AWAY from Railway property !!!!

Also, Court re-privatised the Bus Companies and are now complaining that there isn’t enough bsses on weekends and Public holidays !!!!

That Nationals Ad shown on 7 News tonight showing the “city politician” drivinghis kids to School across the road reminds me of certain coalition pollies in the Werstern Suburbs :-)

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