A new scheme by the Victorian government aimed at improving train services within metropolitan Melbourne has proven largely unsuccessful in its first few weeks of trial. The plan, which involved painting trains purple with red stripes in a youthful and exhuberant design, has failed to improve the number of train cancellations and delays.
"We're really stumped," spokeswoman Wendy Choo said in a press conference today. "I really thought our 5 million dollar initiative here, with a design especially commissioned for speed and accuracy, was going to see a marked improvement."
In the face of increasing criticism over the new myki ticketing system, which still faces technological issues with overcharging even as it is being rolled out over three years behind schedule, this new defeat could well see Labour outed at the next election.
"I thought the trains would be all better and stuff," concerned daily commuter Trevor Hargreaves sighed. "I thought once they rebranded, relabelled, reticketted and re-painted everything, it would alter the basic infrastructure somehow and we'd have fast trains like in Japan or something."
2 comments:
They should have painted them red. Everyone knows red's the colour that makes speed. Silly people.
I know. So close to getting it right...
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