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Wow! this blog is indeed the first entry when you search 'connex sucks' on google. i guess no one else has made any website about connex sucking besides me, guess they just dont 'hate it with a passion'... yet.

connex is rescheduling the train timetable as of nov 9th i think. they are also purchasing new trains, so i guess they are trying to make an improvement. its kinda sad for people living on the lines that they are changing routes; a hassle for workers because the train wont be running through the city loop anymore. HAHA. that must suck bad! on another note, i heard that connex was being taken over by a french company, is that true? i need to check that out to see if its true. if they could improve the services then it would put connex in so much shame(although connex should already be ashamed of its crappy services) i just realised that their idea of a service being 'on time' is if it comes between 1-5mins of its scheduled time. are they retarded? if it says it is going to arrive at a certain time, then trains should come ON time. otherwise its just false advertisement, they should get sued.

in respnse

in response to someones' comment on one of my posts about the stupid connex trains, i guess i should start writing about how gay connex is again. i have totally forgotten that i even made this page, it was more of a "vent my spleen" kind of thing last year. anyway, i have to say that it totally sucks to be living so close to the city yet take at more than 30 minutes to get from my house to university. living near caulfield, you would expect to be able to get to university at tops 30 minutes. but if you ever try to go during the peak hour traffic, OMG! you cant even get on!! thats how totally gay it is. and to make matters worse, the trains are always late. then that train will be totally packed like sardines and so will the next and the next one. GG to that. this is all pretty trivial but i dont really havea good "spleen" because i have just gotten used to the fact that connex is gay and it sucks and there is no stopping it from sucking.

REFUND?

anyone hear about the 'supposed' refund given out by connex? i know this is like really old news but they are handing out free tickets to people in possession of a weekly, monthly or yearly tickets to compensate for their crappy service. Sure that is a good gesture but in my terms, these tickets are absolutely useless. You see, as i am a student, i hold a yearly ticket. Now why would i need a free daily ticket? Even if i was to save it and use it next year, there would be no point if im going to buy another yearly ticket again. For people who dont know, the yearly ticket expires on the 28th of February every year. Even if i bought a yearly ticket in Januray or March, it would still expire on the same day. now can anyone explain to me why i would need a free ticket? i basically paid my fare already.
Another thing is, why are ticket fares going up? it would be great if the increase in price means that it fixes the public transport network, but it doesnt. They are sill late and delayed and totally unreliable. Where is all the money going? Certainly not to train maintence. i bet it is going to the wages of all those new ticket inspectors that hang around the station. Let me tell you, at some stations they are standing at the entrances to like mobs, as soon as you get off the train they crowd around you like seagulls asking for your ticket. Why would you need that many? Why is connex being so stingy with the fares when they arent even doing anything about the public transport system? They are just ripping the public off!!

once again...
CONNEX SUCKS

Yet again another frustrating day with public transport.

Destination: caulifield station

Departing: Melbourne central station

In theory, because of Sunday timetable, it should take approximately 30 minutes to reach Caulfield from Melbourne central station. It took me like more than 60 minutes. That’s more than double the time!!

I arrived at Melbourne central station at 4.05pm. 4.10pm Frankston train was cancelled. I thought “that sucks, but its connex. There is always the Cranbourne/ Pakenham line. The next train was scheduled at 4.17pm. Not a bad wait, but it was delayed for 5 minutes. When it finally arrived, it was supposed to get to caulifield at 4.44pm, BUT it stopped at Flinders street station and it was announced that it was “not in service” and passengers had to get off and change platforms. I wonder why? Considering that it was supposed to go straight to Pakenham.

Platform 6 and 7 at Flinders street was over crowded with people. If anyone even cared to look around it was the platform that had the most people, every other platform had like 10 people… Ok, so the 4.40pm Frankston was supposed to come, interestingly at 4.35pm an EMPTY train that was NOT IN SERVICE zoomed past. 4.40pm no train….. 4.45pm still no sign of a train in sight. 4.50pm, another EMPTY train that was NOT IN SERVICE speeds past commuters as if just to tease them. As the last carriage is lost through the tunnel, there was a big “ugh” and a second later, heads turned and the words “What the hell?” and “Oh My God” could be heard. A lady turned to me and said “This is ridiculous!” Well to answer everybody’s displease, a train finally turns up.

I thought it was the end of the horror, this train was supposed to run express from South Yarra to Malvern, but guess what? It decides to stop at every single station. What the hell? Even if the drivers were thinking “this will compensate for the late/delayed trains” it doesn’t really. If it was scheduled to run express, then people who want to get off at those stations wouldn’t get on would they? My guess was right, as it supposed at each station, nobody got off. It just wasted more time. Another comment from a passenger “Wasn’t this supposed to run express?”

Time of arrival to Caulfield around 5.10pm.

Imagine my frustration, what about all those people who live on the Frankston line? At least at Caulfield I could catch either Frankston or Cranbourne/Pakenham lines.

Connex sucks