Do you know there is such a hidden little welfare?
During train system failures, passengers who want to catch a plane or take an exam can take a free taxi if the rail fails to reach their destination.
In addition, the system failure period also provides taxis to help city railway drivers go home this business.
Does this rule look very warm?
It may be a blessing for those who can't go home and be in a hurry, but for Australia's government, the business is a nightmare …
Because data from the government show that these nice businesses have spent millions of Australian dollars.
One passenger spent A $672 on a taxi from central to Southern Highlands, in August.
The other passenger, from Haymarket to Blue Mountains, was charged A $601.
Seven stranded passengers took a free taxi, costing A $590 from Campbelltown to Moss Vale,.
(Minister of Transport, Andrew Constance)
The most expensive was in January, when a large number of passengers and employees were stranded at the railway station as a result of staffing problems and thunder and lightning, which cost government A $ two hundred and seventy eight thousand in rental fees that month.
With the exception of September, taxis cost more than A $ one hundred thousand a month in excess of train capacity.
Hugh McDermott, chairman of the opposition party WasteWatch committee, aimed the issue at Transport Minister Andrew Constance,.
"A completely incompetent transport minister-run junk train system,
Wasted more than A $1 million in taxpayers' money. "
Meanwhile, a Sydney City Rail spokesman said taxis would be approved only if there were no other forms of public transport.
Generally permitted conditions are extreme weather and fatal accidents.
Therefore, I would like to remind you here that not all taxi fares due to delays are reimbursable.
Train delays in Sydney have become commonplace for long-lived friends, and there are a variety of reasons for the delay.
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In 2018, there were three serious large-scale train delays.
On Thursday night, traffic in Sydney was once again in chaos as "emergency signal equipment maintenance at the central railway station" delayed train services into and out of the city and paralysed the service network.
This train delay is not a small delay of a certain train, but a large number of lines late.
Central Station, as Sydney's central station, is often faced with very heavy traffic pressure, a slight problem will affect all aspects of the incoming cars.
At that time, the Wynyard railway station was closed and some of the flights were cancelled. There was a delay of almost 25 minutes in all directions.
Affected lines include T1 North Shore,Northern & Western Line,T2 Inner West & Leppington Line,T3 Bankstown Line,T8 Airport & South Line and Blue Mountains Line.
Sydney Train Service says its operations team is trying to get all trains back to normal. More than 80 flights were delayed by 15 to 53 minutes, with the only unaffected being the T4 line, the report said.
And this massive train delay can be described as "quite tragic".
First, the time of the problem happened around the end of the day, when many people who came out of the office to prepare to go home suddenly noticed that the vehicle was late, and instead imposed current restrictions in many large subway stations in case of danger.
But in this way, the platform is still full of people, everywhere waiting for the train home.
Second, Sydney has had a significant cooling climate since the last few days, especially in the evening, when the winds flared and people had to wait on the platform.
Commuters then complained on Twitter:
Waiting for the train in the shivering weather, Sydney train is a joke, everyone has been unable to complain about the Sydney train, and this is the third large delay this year, in February 2018, Power failures at Sydney's central station have caused widespread delays and many passengers have been stranded on the platform.
Because of the damage to the power supply system, the whole station was dark and a large number of trains were forced to stop.
And that morning, all the cars were 5 minutes late and 40 minutes behind schedule, and many of the power systems were out of order.
At that time because it was early peak hours, a lot of commuter had an impact.
In fact, in January of this year, Sydney also had a long-standing large-scale train delay accident.
At that time, because of the thunderstorm that lasted for many days, lightning struck the wire, causing the train signal to float red, and the seven additional trains originally used to cope with the peak of travel were called to a halt in all numbers.
The subsequent lightning strikes delayed several Sydney trains by more than an hour and forced several trains to be cancelled.
As Australia's most populous city, Sydney does have the greatest traffic pressure.
And the train does not provide the performance from time to time, lets the anxious people be very mad, also no wonder everybody has opened the group ridicule pattern to the Sydney train late in the network in succession …
Sydney's transport minister was spurted for some reason.