Two morning express services cut by stealth
The popular morning rail services Central Coast to Sydney have been drastically cut by the Minns Labor State Government.
Commuters now have a choice to catch a 5:10am or 5:57am service from Woy Woy - all stops to Hornsby.
Miss the 5:10am service and you're waiting 47 minutes for the next train.
The express services at 5:31am and 5:47am have been cut.
And it has been done in a sneaky way - the timetabled 5:47am services shows as still in service but is almost always cancelled - inconveniencing commuters even further.
The impact is many commuters are late to work or have to leave 20 minutes earlier, making for longer days.
Travelling on a highly-crowded 5:57am service means potentially standing up for over one hour.
Residents are facing a longer commute, by an extra 10 minutes, due to the express service being cancelled.
What's Liesl Tesch's view on this?
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Email, 12 Jun 2024
Luke Chell, Woy Woy
Ms Tesch's office has passed on the following advice from Transport for NSW:
"No train services from Woy Woy have been permanently removed since the introduction of the current standard operating timetable in 2017.
"This timetable does not include a service departing Woy Woy at 5.31am.
"Since the beginning of April this year, the 05:47am express service out of Woy Woy to Central (stopping at Hornsby) has run on time 75 percent of the time.
"When there are unplanned delays, reasons can include obstructions on the tracks, issues with the track infrastructure and delays to other trains using the track which can have flow on effects."