{"id":1589,"date":"2013-02-20T15:26:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T04:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/australiansforhonestpolitics.wordpress.com\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2019-04-13T23:24:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T13:24:22","slug":"cityrail-cityfail-training-citizen-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/cityrail-cityfail-training-citizen-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Cityrail #cityfail? Training citizen journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Pascal Grosvenor<\/a>
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I know a thing or two about catching trains.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been a Sydney train commuter for 18 years. In that time I\u2019ve completed two university degrees and had several different jobs. From 1995 to 1998 I trained to Macquarie University via Epping station, and since then I\u2019ve trained to and from City Circle train stations.<\/p>\n

Cityrail and its customers had a terrible time last week. The Sydney Morning Herald reported<\/a> that a slipped fan belt caused rail chaos on Wednesday evening. Then a train broke down at St Leonards on Thursday evening, aka Valentine\u2019s Day, causing a second night of major delays. These two incidents affected me and the 300,000 other Sydneysiders catching trains at evening peak times.\u00a0One Tweet in particular really stuck with me.<\/p>\n

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Man with flowers speaking to staff why trains were stopped. Looks like he’ll miss his candlelight dinner. Poor bugga<\/p>\n

— Nick Stylianou (@kypros1992) February 14, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n