Seat Hoggers And Seat Pushers - Minchinbury Commuter!

Mariah from Minchinbury a university student travels by Sydney Trains from Mount Druitt and return to Central and return.

The ride on the trains are alright. The issues she has is when people play too much loud music and would quite carriages on each end of train carriages reaching Mount Druitt. 

Mariah also detests 'Seat Hoggers' that use bags on seats in peak times to prevent other commuters to sit down. She claims people should be more polite to allow others  to sit down where there is room.

 She also has issues with seats being full and mostly women want to force their way to a seat that doesn't have room for them to sit down. This happens especially hen there are long seats close to the doors, at each end of the trains!

What do you think - do you face these issues - do you have a suggestion to sort these problems?

Increased Busways 739 Service Required - Minchinbury Commuter!

A young an UWS university student from Minchinbury travels by  Busways 739 to Mount Druitt, catches City Rail trains to and from Parramatta, to catch any buses starting with '52' from Parramatta to Rydalmere and return.

He  is looking for improvements on the Busways 739 route by way of increased services in off-peak times to a half hour service, as he claims he would then spread the word to family and friends so that they would  travel on more buses. Not only that it would promote improved public transport services within Minchinbury. This would not only make his life easier but easier for others.

Here's Another Shuttle Bus Request Different Route For Mount Druitt!

At times we get requests and suggestions by word of mouth, by smile and by kind gestures. Sometimes I get requests from our  commuters that write to us that see the shuttle bus run down their street and they instantly think there is one running in their street.

By having the colour-coded   dark green, light green and white Shuttle bus it stands out for our new light blue, dark blue and white buses, here is  an e-mail request from a commuter:

"Would you be able to advise me if the Free Shuttle Bus runs to Sargents Road, Minchinbury then back to Mount Druitt Station. I am unable to find the Shuttle Route. Also if you could forward me the Route and timings. I work on Sargents Road, starting at 8am and finish at 4pm. I would like to use the Shuttle Service.

e-mail sent on 28/3/13

Also picture received of Shuttle bus on Sargents Road 17/4/13:

My Response to original e-mail:

Hi (Commuter),

 

Thank you for your e-mail. The free  Shuttle bus proposal we have is not going down Sargents Road, Minchinbury as yet. Yet the proposal you are asking for sounds like a good proposal, especially if there is a need for it - If you would like to lobby for this with us - we will assist you.

 

The current Free Shuttle Bus proposal is planned to go around the Shopping hub of Mount Druitt - there are people that would like an extension to Minchinbury near Bunnings and return. First we need  our free  Shuttle bus proposal, to be accepted by NSW Government and they can work out funding, it gets implemented , well patronised and then further extensions can be petitioned to be added.

 

If you would like to  come to our next meeting and discuss your plan/proposal, we will be meeting at West Tradies, Wood Stock Road, Dharruk at 10.30am on Saturday, 30th March 2013.

 

The link to the map of the story about the launch  of our Free Shuttle Bus is as follows:

 http://mountdruittcommuters.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/launch-of-mount-druitt-community-and.html

 

The  route map will be there - timings will be every 20 minutes minimum during the week. I hope this helps!

John Svoboda

President

Mount Druitt Commuters Improvement Group Inc.