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edison
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
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Location: NSW Central Coast
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"This is a railway forum, dickhead!" I hear you passionately exclaim. But, hang on, just listen.
The new Regional Map for the new * Newcastle bus network that came into being last Sunday shows a Fare Free Zone covering the area from Newcastle East, almost to Hamilton (to where Maitland Rd crosses the railway), and two or three streets south of the line.
This exactly parallels the railway, no charge, saving $2.60 each way on the train fare.
This is a trick to lure pax off the trains if they travel just within this zone, to provide more ammo to close the line.
Or am I just an unmitigated cynic? Never!
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Somebody
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Joined: 12 Jun 2007
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The free zone has been in place for ages. Quite handy.
I really can't see why you'd bother waiting half an hour (or more) for a train when there's a bus every five minutes, no matter if you still had to pay for the bus.
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Bwana
Joined: 23 Jul 2007
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Location: about 1km south of EH23.15
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A new free bus started in Sydney on Monday going from Central to Circular Quay vias (from memory) Elizabeth and George streets. Unless they're also planing to do away with the city circle I'd say it's just that Nathan has decided it's time to update our transport - up to the eighties I guess, when free bus routes around the CBD started becoming common in a number of cities worldwide.
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edison
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Small mistake in my first post: the asterisk after "new" bus network was meant to lead to a footnote:
* new in the sense that there are a whole 4 new routes, some really only amalgamations of previous ones. Of the suggestions that were received and "acted on", almost all were requests for routes NOT to be changed - and they weren't!
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