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Here I am at the station waiting for another train. Since the new operator has taken the responsibility of running Melbourne metropolitan train system, there has been this big argument who is better. Metro or Connex.
Connex was managing the metro train lines for the past ten years. State government took the decision to get rid of the old operator and get a new one from Hong Kong. Which is said to be ultra effecient in running of HK metro.
Personally I didn’t see major issues with Connex. I might have low expectation because Melbourne Metro System is thousand times better than the Sri Lankan one. Travelling in Sri Lankan public transport system is health and safety issue. To those who are unfamilier with Sri Lankan transport system, it like the Bathurst V8 with cars replaced with aluminum bodied buses. Drivers of these buses compete with each other in the same route to pick up more passengers. So you will never know when you will end up in major crash. Coming back to Connex everybody thought changing the operator shall revolutionize the train system and will make it look like HK metro. But reality is far from it, state government has failed to identify the needs of these passengers, what we need is not change of logo or metro in front of every announcment. What we need is more trains in peak hours and reduce the time people have to wait for a train in non peak hours.
To make this a reallity what we need is more trains, more drivers, more tracks and effecient signalling system. New operator cannot provide this without the backing of the government.
Time to get off in Melbourne Central.
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