Message to ARTA: please just get the basics right

As I noted a couple of days ago it has been a pretty horrific year for Auckland’s train system so far, with signalling failures, points failures and train failures seemingly occurring on a daily basis (quite literally actually). In that previous post I questioned whether the $11 million cutback to the rail contract was behind many of these problems (the train breakdowns, the daily signal and points failures are KiwiRail’s fault).…
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Sundays on the Western Line

One of the things Aucklanders don’t like to talk about – because it’s far too embarrassing – is that up until a few years ago our trains didn’t run on Sundays. That’s right, we had the typical weekday services and then we had a greatly reduced timetable that ran on Saturdays, and nothing at all on Sundays.…
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