Another Typical Example of NSW Labor Incompetence
This is how the shockingly incompetent NSW Labor government fudges the figures:
Overcrowding will become accepted practice on triple the number of CityRail trains under a NSW Government bid to make its performance figures look good.
CityRail aims for no more than 5 per cent of trains to carry a "crush load".
But bureaucrats want to extend that target to 17 per cent after a review revealed 16 per cent of services in 2007-08 ran with such a load - whereby passengers exceed 135 per cent of seating capacity.
Just to summarise:
The official regulator target for overcrowding is no more than 5% of train services at overcrowding, which is 135% of seated capacity.
The current figures show that 16% of services are over the capacity target.
NSW Labor's solution? Make the target 17%. Problem solved!
The next state election, 2011, the next chance to vote this bunch of idiots out, is more than 2 years away.
*sigh*
