You have to love election time. It’s the time of year when politicians make promises about all the cool stuff they’ll do after they get elected, as opposed to actually doing it when they had the chance. To prove the point, the NSW Labor government yesterday promised free WiFi for Sydney trains should they get reelected next month. More »
If you’ve ever travelled on Sydney public transport, you’ll know that it’s neither overly reliable or easy to use. Fortunately, the TripView Sydney timetable app is, which almost makes up for it. More »
One of the country’s most iconic train stations, Circular Quay in Sydney, has received a geeky bonus today with the launch of a three month trial of free Wi-Fi for commuters. But why is it only a trial, Cityrail? More »
As a quick follow up to last week’s story on Cityrail threatening legal action over third party iPhone applications that apparently used Copyright timetable information: The NSW Premier has asked the Transport Minister David Campbell to intervene on behalf of the developers, asking RailCorp to meet with the developers to come to an arrangement. More »
(Apologies in advance for the Sydney-centric rant about to be flung your way).
If there’s a bigger bunch of dicks than the people running Cityrail in Sydney, I’m yet to hear about them. Aside from incredibly inept timetabling, corruption, outdated trains and an overall incompetence in terms of providing a world-class public transport system, they’ve also demanded that a third party developer of an iPhone timetable app pull their program from the App Store for copyright violation. More »
