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Dunne: Wellington rail services ‘a total shambles’
Media Statement
Hon Peter Dunne
MP for
Ohariu
Leader of UnitedFuture
Monday, 4 April 2011
Dunne: Wellington rail services ‘a total shambles’
With unclipped tickets giving free rides and other passengers being put of the trains and on to buses, Wellington’s commuter rail services are in a shambolic state, Ohariu MP and UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne said today.
“It has got to the point where you have to ask, what is going on here?” Mr Dunne said.
“There are new trains that are supposed to be running by now, but instead of a new era of efficient, comfortable transport we have a rail system that appears to be utterly inept and dysfunctional.
“Wellington commuters have gone through the last few years being asked to be patient, and they have been.
“They have put up with all manners of disruption, delay and inconvenience. They have accepted lesser services while lines were rebuilt and while new trains were awaited. Now where is the pay-off and when is it going to come?
“All we’re getting is a sense that this training service is close to breaking point.
“The only ticket not being clipped here is the ticket of performance and reliability,” Mr Dunne said.
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