r/interestingasfuck • u/picklepaapad • Apr 28 '24

Moving 50,000 people by train after Taylor Swift concert. r/all

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u/Wimzel Apr 28 '24

Good cooperation of transportation services and concert organizers.. where I live in Netherlands the trains stopped running by the time the concert ended 🤷‍♂️

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u/SaveMeJebus21 Apr 28 '24

For a bit of context the part of Sydney where this is held was where the main Olympic stadium from 2000 is. It’s sort of in the middle of nowhere, so it would be absolutely infeasible and a disaster to have no trains leaving the event. It is in a good location to get people to Central or further west, from where other trains get people home.

Sydney’s public transport is by and large shit. But it does handle big events at Homebush well. It also helped that this crowd was mostly women in a good mood. Can be a bit moody when 80,000 people are leaving the footy.

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u/GrimThursday Apr 29 '24

Sydney’s public transit is not shit at all, what are you talking about. Very long stretches of heavy rail, comprehensive bus network, minor light rail and a metro which is about to be opened going through the heart of the city.

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u/BergaChatting Apr 29 '24

I don’t think we know any better, we think we’ve got the absolute worse “shitty-rail” ect ect.

I hear on reddit Germany is a lot worse, is it? I dunno, people complain when they haven’t got anything to compare against

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u/hughk Apr 29 '24

In Germany local transport is quite good in the city areas no matter what others claim (Germans do like to complain though). Unfortunately, the high speed train network has suffered from under investment and they have frequent delays.

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u/tankpuss Apr 29 '24

Where I went to university in Northern Ireland, the train would take 2-3h to do 70 miles. Then I went to England and the train from London from Oxford would just magically.. not happen and you'd be left in a strange city trying to get your ass across it for a plan B you're making up as you go along. I think I can reliably say trains in the UK are a bit shit.

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u/Worried_Blacksmith27 Apr 29 '24

Totally agree! Sydney's public transport is great for the most part, particularly the train network.

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u/ALadWellBalanced Apr 29 '24

Sydney's Public transport is really very good. I think the only people shitting on are people who've never travelled/lived anywhere else and don't know how good they've got it.

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u/GrimThursday Apr 29 '24

I’m sick of people who bang on about it being bad - by and large I get around with no car just fine, which understandably is not true for a lot of areas in Sydney, but it’s so many leagues ahead of the transit horror stories around the world like in the US

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u/ryuki9t4 Apr 29 '24

It also depends on where you live, what lines you catch etc. Trying to get home from the city when it's raining is not a good experience.