What a genius, Cityfail
Hooray. Commuters are going to be charged extra for fewer trains that run slower. Cityrail alleges that more of its services are running on time - this isn’t hard considering that they are running much fewer trains, and have changed the definition for on-time-running from 3 minutes to 5 minutes. Genius. So in effect, from July 2, commuters will be paying for fewer trains, spun by Cityrail to look like efficient on-time services. What a joke.
What’s worse is that the ‘independent’ pricing tribunal has agreed with Cityrail that its services are running more on time. Why don’t they define on-time running to plus/minus 30 minutes - then nearly all of their services will be on time, and they can justify another price hike. I’m sure the people running the independent pricing tribunal don’t have to put up with the train system and get taxpayer funded cars and petrol.