Indigestion
Tuesday 27 July 2010 2:57 AM
Metro's Twitter feed must be one of the least digestible reads in Melbourne. I literally cannot recall a day since subscribing when there hasn't been at least 2 or 3 tweets about delays on one or more train lines, usually due to a failure in some component of the transport network's worn out infrastructure. Now we've the had the "morning from (transport) hell", and if anyone's surprised it won't be the longsuffering commuters who subscribe to transport updates.
Now would be a very good time for Messrs Brumby and Pakula to come clean. Please, no more spin, fudging or blame shifting. Let's have some straightforward transparent honesty. Something like "We admit that we and our predecessors, left and right, have failed to invest in public transport. It won't be a quick fix, but if elected ... " Who knows, it might even win some votes on shock value.