As a crusading editor, I feel an obligation to give back to the city. Therefore please join my campaigns to close Mt Lawley Station and demolish the Guildford Hotel. See my recent letter to Transport Minister Buswell on the first topic.
Dear Mr. Buswell,
I refer to the recent work undertaken on Mt Lawley train station, including the public art, (discussed here at The Worst of Perth).
https://theworstofperth.com/2012/05/16/public-art-alert/
I wonder at the decision to spend large amounts of money on a station that according to the transport website is used by virtually nobody.
It is difficult to see why the station is even there, since it does not service the commercial centre of Mt Lawley (or anywhere else). The station is situated in a very low density residential area, the demographic of which would regard public transport as some kind of dangerous socialism.
Most of the day, even at peak times, the three sculptural figures purchased for no doubt vast amounts of money, greatly outnumber passengers on the platform.
Surely the sensible thing to do would be to close the station and put the resources into either more trains or into the other better used stations on the line, Maylands for example, where thousands of drinkers will soon be flocking to Alannah MacTiernan’s new bar Swallow.
https://theworstofperth.com/2012/01/12/i-still-cant-swallow/
Andrew McDonald
The Worst of Perth
I refer to the recent work undertaken on Mt Lawley train station, including the public art, (discussed here at The Worst of Perth).
https://theworstofperth.com/2012/05/16/public-art-alert/
I wonder at the decision to spend large amounts of money on a station that according to the transport website is used by virtually nobody.
It is difficult to see why the station is even there, since it does not service the commercial centre of Mt Lawley (or anywhere else). The station is situated in a very low density residential area, the demographic of which would regard public transport as some kind of dangerous socialism.
Most of the day, even at peak times, the three sculptural figures purchased for no doubt vast amounts of money, greatly outnumber passengers on the platform.
Surely the sensible thing to do would be to close the station and put the resources into either more trains or into the other better used stations on the line, Maylands for example, where thousands of drinkers will soon be flocking to Alannah MacTiernan’s new bar Swallow.
https://theworstofperth.com/2012/01/12/i-still-cant-swallow/
Andrew McDonald
The Worst of Perth
The Worst of Perth 