CityRail - Cleaning blitz + Epping turned into 'car park' after Chatswood rail link

The first story Is about how our mr primier is trying to make our trains cleaner, the second part is below.

Epping turned into 'car park' after Chatswood rail link
By Rhya Haynes
August 18, 2009 12:00AM

THE back streets of Epping have become a carpark after the $2.3 billion Epping
to Chatswood Rail Link was built without any commuter parking.

Locals said new drivers fill the streets from the early hours as they join
10,000 commuters on the line.

The new line has attracted residents from Sydney's west and northwest after the
State Government scrapped the Epping-Parramatta section of the new link, and the
$12 billion northwest line to Rouse Hill.

Locals blamed the Government's failure to address the "critical shortage" of
commuter parking and to deliver integrated public transport.

Once-quiet residential streets have filled with commuters searching for a
parking spot, shadow Attorney-General Greg Smith, a local, said.

"In the last year it has become so much worse, even where I live there used to
be no cars at all, and now it is clogged each morning," he said.

"We are seeing cars jammed across driveways and even people stealing things from
front yards."

Mr Smith said the problem would worsen in coming months, when a new timetable
integrated the link with the rest of the CityRail network

Campbelltown resident Jamie Baker searches daily for a park since his workplace
moved to Epping last year.

"I feel sorry for the residents, it's really hard to find a parking spot
anywhere," Mr Baker said yesterday.

"It's usually just a matter of driving around until you grab a spot." Parramatta
and Hornsby councils formed the Epping Traffic and Parking Joint Lobbying
Committee to fight for parking at the station or somewhere local.

"Extended peak-hour traffic, gridlocked local streets and neighbourhoods crammed
with parked cars are now a daily reminder of the Government's failure to develop
an integrated approach to traffic and transport for the Epping community,"
Parramatta mayor Tony Issa said.

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[moiz1968]

Menegle Railway station is on the Southern Highlands line.

[bongitis]

hahahaha i hav a friend called nathan rees

[ironfalcon100]

Why Doesn't Nathan Rees Clean it Himself!

Trashman should clean up the trains, removing all the old bubble gum, with nothing but a broom, hand vacuum and hot soapy water and sponge.

[cityraildude]

Why Doesn't Nathan Rees Clean it Himself! The Stupid Media Make him look good by showing him in an orange vest! He was probbably sitting on his fat lazy butt doing nothing & yelling at the cleaners & telling them off!!!! Stupid media show the whole thing not just the part where he looks like he was taking a break from cleaning them when really he was taking a break from sitting on his butt yelling at everyone!!!

[cityraildude]

They should build a Carpark at Epping 7 preaty much every station. I know the council should arrange it! Disscuss this more on my forum! I hate the government. They can't even run a peanut propperly letaloning te whole NSW! Love Australia Hate The Governments!!!

[FBIRoyLindell]

How can people or the media accuse CityRail of taking up or clogging up parking near the suburbs? Far out, if they wanted more parking away from the houses, the bloody council should arrange it.

"So lets just not have this whole railway then huh?

Always a CityRail bashing ready from the media, even if the facts aren't true.

[123graff123]

has anyone seen the bayswater yard man thats the fuking sickest yard man