Thursday, February 2, 2012

755 Bus Service - Whalan Commuter Needs Bus Service As It Was Before - Returned

I meet people that always tell me how the previous full Busways 755 bus service from Mount Druitt to Blacktown had a high patronage and was  met the important needs of Western Mount Druitt suburbs. Now because Busways want to move people in Mount Druitt to St. Marys and give better transport in that direction - they want commuters from the Western part of Mount Druitt to travel longer and  have more waiting time to reach the destination of Blacktown.

Refer to blog on Busways excuses for not returning full 755 Bus Service

Busways Head Office  is based in Pymble, Sydney and it would be like saying to them we want to move [people from Pymble to Chatswood not to Hornsby on new Bus routes and the employees all came from Hornsby not Chatswood - not a good connection.

Bus Maps for Pymble Area

So whilst speaking to Phillip  from Whalan he has return issues with Busways 755 and  was using the return service before Busways decided to remove the service - he works at Plumpton and is able to use the bus service to from Whalan to Plumpton going to work in the mornings. he is disgruntled still with the removed bus service that provided proper links to public transport to make his life easier before, not to leave people disadvantaged, lost & disorientated.

Since the removal his return trip adds 1/2 hour to one hour to get home and yet these are short distances, after 5pm there are no Plumpton 755 bus services to take him back to Whalan in ONE trip! He has been silent about this issue so far yet was very vocal ( as he was speaking for others as well) that have the similar problems. by Busways pushing people to St Marys he is pushed to get TWO bus services Busways 756 from Plumpton  to Mount Druitt and then Mount Druitt connect to another bus service to Whalan - Busways thinks this is fair! People speak and & people unfairness is not fair - depriving commuters of their proper ONE service is not fair.

Phillip also says that the bus services brought better transport connections from Western Mount Druitt to Blacktown - prior to the severing the arm of commuters important travel destinations. WE are not to be trodden on by large corporations and decisions makers that do not work with the people. If need be we will request that we have Government Runned  bus and this might solve the problem! I wonder if Busways would respect the Western part of Mount for travel then.

'Public transport should be there for the public - not there just to satisfy bus operators - bus operators are there to comply with  needs of essential services and to meet these requirements of providing exceptional services to the general public - otherwise they need not be bus operators!'



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