The Reichstag Fire Stratagem

Up Yours too

VE VILL BLAME BUSES FOR THE CONGESTION VE ARE CREATING

THEN VE VILL TERMINATE THEM

The brochure Sydney's Light Rail Future states: "Most people arrive in the CBD via public transport. This means we can see 370 buses moving along George Street outside Town Hall in the morning's busiest hour - creating congestion. It can take up to 30 minutes to get from Central Station to Circular Quay, a distance of 2.5 kilometres."

Fortunately Chris Lock is a self-proclaimed genius and has come up with a solution to all this: transfer all the bus routes using George Street into Elizabeth Street! Not only will the buses from Parramatta Road and City Road have to deal with the extra buses from Oxford Street, William Street and Chalmers Street, they have the extra established congestion points in Elizabeth Street at the right-hand turn from Liverpool Street and the left-hand turn into Market Street. Then they have to deal with the congestion and restricted bus-stop space in Phillip Street.

O'Farrell's contempt for the intelligence of students and staff at Sydney University and University of Technology and for the intelligence of residents in southern and the inner western suburbs of Sydney far exceeds his contempt for the intelligence of residents of the Eastern Suburbs.

In the past there was no way of dissuading commuters on bus services along Broadway from catching a bus to Circular Quay then getting off at Central Station, so, in general, all bus services proceeded on to Circular Quay. That has changed now, and this was explained to the Minister for Transport. She has chosen to ignore this advice and is proceeding with a catastrophically flawed "Project", with the support of O'Farrell.

Transferring bus services using Broadway from George Street to Elizabeth Street achieves nothing, of course, and makes it impossible to ever reduce congestion in the CBD.