The two options for Newcastle’s light rail route are now on public exhibition.
The Property Council has weighed in on the debate and wants to see the line travel down the city’s ailing main street.
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The two options for Newcastle’s light rail route are now on public exhibition.
The Property Council has weighed in on the debate and wants to see the line travel down the city’s ailing main street.
Your report sounds like it came directly from the Property Council. The decision to keep the railway has been made many times over the last 20 years but a few developers have constantly lobbied the government to change this decision.
Do you really expect us to choose between these two empty, wasteful and expensive choices? What will they bring public transport users apart from a slower, more inconvenient trip into Newcastle?
Half a billion dollars (and upwards…way upwards) to destroy valuable public transport infrastructure and then replace it with something slower and more inconvenient. What a pathetic con job on the people of Newcastle.
Your reporter displayed a rather annoying bias. Why call Hunter Street “ailing”? That sounds like it came straight out of the Property Council press release. Hunter Street is booming. The top of town is busy and it is extremely hard to find a parking place. You know what really upsets me? People like your reporter and others like our Lord Mayor who constantly run this city down… criticizing it and making disparaging comments about it. Do you give any thought to how this appears to people who live outside our town.. and perhaps planning a trip to our town? STOP BADMOUTHING MY BEAUTIFUL CITY!
If you think light rail will ever be built in our town you are very naive. The State Government will remove the railway (and they will spend ALL of the 400 million and more to do so) and then they will promise us light rail sometime in the future. We’ll end up with even less than nothing and a useless public transport system that will bleed passengers even faster.
Nothing has been spent on our railway for decades. The trains are dirty, slow and unsafe. No wonder we’ve lost passengers. You have to ask yourself whether this is a deliberate ploy by the State Government to run down the train system, reducing passengers until they have an excuse to cut the line at Gosford.
Our biggest problem in Newcastle is that our public transport is designed and managed by people in Sydney who wouldn’t be seen dead on public transport, especially public transport in Newcastle.
Enjoy your wait for new public transport in Newcastle. I wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you.
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