“Big enough” or connected/scary enough?
I may be an uncool Dad now however I do know that a promoter called Vino Noir has held private parties there that where you have to turn in your phone before you’re allowed in. 
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Same same
Imagine the thoughts going through that PR persons head, lying through their teeth over and over again. That would make me quit in an instant.
Sefton does.
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I don’t know if we ever discussed the actual answer for what they were.
Holy shitballs Batman !!! ( sorry )
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Ewwwwww
A Qantas plane engine taking off from Sydney Airport exploded this morning, the resulting debris caused a massive grass fire along the runway.
Like Villa and Hamburg before them, the writing has been on the wall for years and Qantas are seemingly doing nothing to avoid going down.
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So I have been overseas for the last month but am flying back this Sunday. I just read there is a train strike. The SMH said for 3 days and News are saying 4 days which includes Sunday. Can someone please confirm for me? I can’t get back into the SMH article now as I have read too many articles
Thursday to Sunday (inclusive).
Does that mean the metro as well?
Not necessarily but the Metro is jam packed in peak hour on a normal day so…
It’s like 10pm Thursday to 6am Sunday
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Does not include metro.
But metro is off Saturday and Sunday for planned maintenance.
I land about 8am Sunday so might just be ok. Thanks for your reply, and everyone else
Hopefully they will cancel it later in the week
It’s just like the Buses Replace Trains thing everey single weekend except an extra day-ish.
In Italy on the train app Trenit they helpfully have an upcoming schedule of strikes over the next few months which have been rolling for the past years. So if they’re in this for the long haul they should publish strike dates like the the trackwork dates.
With the exception of the fact that when there’s weekend shutdowns it’s usually just one line, and its on a weekend, so passanger levels are significantly less. This is every line from Nowra to Newcastle, Blue Mountains to the City, and everywhere in between. For the best part of 4 days.
Bus companies are going to need to throw every bus in their depots onto the roads for rail replacement, in addition to their normal weekday timetabled services.
There’s still a massive shortage of bus drivers in Sydney as it is. Most bus timetable service cancellations are down to the fact they don’t have a driver to cover that particular service on that route.
An 8-car train can hold about 1,000 people at capacity. A bus, depending on the size and internal configuration, between 50-80. During rush hour tomorrow and Friday, you’re going to need about 20 buses for every scheduled train.
Most bus depots don’t have enough buses left in them during rush hour to cover half that number for a singular train service, let alone the frequency required for rush hour.
Also remember, thats the reason the state government has set up dedicated buses, and depots to accommodate for the North-West metro shutdown and now the Bankstown Line metro shutdown. They’ve had to purchase about 100 new buses just to cover one line shutdown.
Take into consideration that during weekend rail replacement work, the state government has to contract private bus companies from outside the Sydney metropolitan region, sometimes as far as Coffs Harbour, to help cover the capacity shortage, which is why you see coaches running rail replacements on some inner city lines.
With companies having dived on the mandatory working from the office mandates in the last few months, traffic is going to be ab absolutely clusterfuck.
It’s going to be a nightmarish shitshow, especially on Thursday and Friday. The unions know this, and thats why there doing it.
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