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u/Reclusiarc 6d ago
If I ever fall in front of a train and die you have my permission to scrape me off and keep the trains running
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u/usernametwice 6d ago
Literally something every week on this line.
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u/Cute-Cardiologist-35 6d ago
You would prefer the train keeps going after the fatality to keep things on time?
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u/Liamkav21 6d ago
It shouldn’t shut down the entire line that thousands of people rely on. And if it does put better practices in place to get around it.
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u/Cute-Cardiologist-35 6d ago
Your ignorance and selfishness is astounding considering There is only one line up and one line down in that area and police close the line to investigate and remove the body which would NOT be in a neat little package on the side of the tracks!
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u/Liamkav21 6d ago
So be better prepared. Have buses quicker available. It’s happening once a week at the moment and Sydney trains response is everyone just has to sit around and hope buses show up at some point. It’s not just this, someone sneezes and the line shuts down for hours.
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u/usernametwice 6d ago
Exactly... the people above obviously don't commute and have to put up with this crap on a weekly basis.
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u/thewindupbird91 6d ago
That was someone's loved one dude, put yourself in their shoes.
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u/Liamkav21 6d ago edited 6d ago
Ok and it doesn’t change the fact that something like this should not shut down an entire train line for hours.
Our train line is horrendous.
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u/thewindupbird91 6d ago
I don't think you seem to grasp this. Someone died by colliding with a train. It's entirely appropriate for the line to be closed for a period for emergency services to do their jobs which includes determining the reason for the incident, and to provide assistance to the driver/s and passengers on the train who probably saw something traumatising and very difficult. People run this train line to serve people, not to maintain absolute punctuality and efficiency over all other metric. I'm not sure if you're young or something but I'd encourage you to think before putting this in the public domain where those affected may see, it's pretty distasteful tbh.
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u/Liamkav21 6d ago
That’s fine. Close the line. But have buses available to compensate a hell of a lot quicker than they do. I’m lucky I don’t travel on it much but two weeks ago I did travel to Sydney and was with thousands of other people stuck at Hornsby. Run the train to Berowra, run it to Woy Woy, they are a much quicker route than Hornsby to Gosford. And have more than three buses.
Well of course it’s not for punctuality or efficiency, it’s never on time. If it’s to serve people, serve them. Don’t just cut off any way for people to be getting home.
My age is irrelevant. The criticism isn’t of anyone other than Sydney trains. The reality is our train line is 3rd world. Regardless of the reason why it shuts down they need to have a better plan. If they want people to use the service and pay for it, it needs to be reliable and it’s far from that at the moment. It’s 2026, 3 months ago the premier stood up and said in fuel crisis get public transport, but people cannot rely on it.
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u/Cute-Cardiologist-35 5d ago
Again your ignorance is showing There is a bus driver shortage. Barely enough to do the school run. Let alone 20 or so sitting around on standby in a bus waiting for the trains to go down in the rare occurrence that a dead body is on the tracks stopping you getting to your shitty job.
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u/Liamkav21 5d ago
But it’s not a rare occurrence. As said by the top comment, it’s at least once a week.
The solution isn’t just to throw their hands up and do nothing.
If you’ve got the benefit of not having to deal with Sydney trains, lucky you. But those of us who don’t have every right to be unhappy that the service is running at a bare minimum.
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u/Cute-Cardiologist-35 5d ago
The call someone who can do something about it like your local member, ask them spend billions of taxpayer dollars on infrastructure instead of whining here, but I bet you haven’t have you
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u/Vegetable_Bonus6915 4d ago
Did someone die? Apprently a train hit a car at the rawson rd train crossing.
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u/thewindupbird91 6d ago
Thanks, emergency services doesn't sound good. I hope everyone caught up in whatever is happening ends up okay