Not news. Not if you use this station. Published in the very early morning, not prime time. Something has to be done about this.
I thought the design of the lumpy roof was to increase airflow. Guess it didnt work :/
The entire station is a colossal fuck up imo. For starters, putting a roof with no ventilation over a place full of diesel fumes is absolutely stupid. Just about every city has agreed it’s not wise to do that, except us for some reason.
Secondly, what kind of dumb arse donkey privatises a public space? It sits on publicly owned land, with publicly owned train tracks running through it, and is serviced by publicly owned trains, and is the primary terminus for a publicly owned train operator (just vline - metro isn’t public). I’m sure they get government grants to operate the station, and I’m sure the redevelopment of it was partially paid for by the government. A private company should have nothing to do with it, plain and simple.
Thirdly, the station amenities are pretty shit. The lack of rubbish bins is what gets me the most. Apparently this is because after a spate of bomb threats, someone wanted to be seen to be doing something so ordered all bins be removed from the stations, and when the decision was made to reinstall them, but with clear bins instead, the idiots running southern cross decided to just…not. I have zero faith that all the cleaners they’ve hired instead of just having fucking bins is probably funded through taxes. And it doesn’t even do anything lol. Almost everyone just dumps their rubbish anyway, so if you were smart enough to build a bomb, I’m sure you could figure out how to disguise it in a hungry jacks bag, or empty zinger box and nobody would notice. Even if you couldn’t, the fucking hungry jacks upstairs has enclosed and non see through bins anyway, but I’m just ranting at this point.
Fourthly, I’ll probably sound like a conspiracy theorist here, but I really do believe that breathing in all of those fumes can’t be good for you in the long run. I’m sure it’s probably fine in the short term, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the poor people working their day in and day out develop some sort of medical issues, and when they do I really hope they or their families sue the shit out of this dodgy company that runs the damn thing, followed by the government for allowing a dodgy company to run a public service and killing everyone
Sorry, that all turned into a rant. I have a lot of anger and hatred for southern cross, and also idiotic and selfish deciaions
I hear you. It’s a rotten design for that place and that purpose. And the tweaks haven’t done thing one to improve matters. I miss the old Spencer St station - flawed as it was it was better than this.
Despite writing to the station’s management, Keith Loveridge did not succeed in getting the air quality data.
He received this response from the then-CEO Phillip Walker.
“You seem to be under some impression that we are compelled to provide information to you – that is not the case, we are a privately run organisation and as such we correspond with you out of courtesy not necessity,” Mr Walker wrote.
