{"id":21890,"date":"2023-07-21T07:12:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T07:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=21890"},"modified":"2023-07-21T07:12:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T07:12:09","slug":"another-labor-own-goal-as-sydney-trains-in-chaos-ahead-of-world-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/07\/21\/another-labor-own-goal-as-sydney-trains-in-chaos-ahead-of-world-cup-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Labor own goal as Sydney trains in chaos ahead of World Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the eve of the Matildas opening game at the FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup, Sydney\u2019s train network is again in chaos with commuters forced to pay for union industrial action in the lead up to this year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Labor Government\u2019s Train Review1 released earlier this year concluded the cause of the significant increase in the backlog of infrastructure inspections and maintenance was due to ongoing union industrial action in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nswliberal.org.au\/getattachment\/b0c9f762-10d3-41d6-9323-a19e0e2485e8\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-20-at-2-03-43-pm.png\" alt=\"Screen-Shot-2023-07-20-at-2-03-43-pm.png\" title=\"Screen-Shot-2023-07-20-at-2-03-43-pm.png\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With a sold-out crowd of over 80,000 fans descending on Homebush tonight, Shadow Minister for Transport, Natalie Ward is calling on Minister Jo Haylen to guarantee that Sydney Trains will provide safe and reliable transport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an unbelievable move, the Minns Labor Government has appointed Josh Murray, a former Labor staffer and Party member, to become the new Secretary for Transport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Murray has no experience in operating or managing any public transport system, with his main qualification for the role seemingly being a former Chief of Staff to a Labor Premier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shadow Minister for Transport Natalie Ward commented:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe complete destruction of Sydney Trains\u2019 reliability under the new Labor Government is a joke. Sydney is on the world stage for the Women\u2019s World Cup, and the Transport Minister can\u2019t get the trains to run on time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese maintenance repairs are only required because the trade unions prioritised political industrial action in the lead up to an election ahead of regular maintenance, and commuters are now paying the price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Transport Minister chose a PR spinner over qualified candidates to lead Transport for NSW, if this is the level of reliability under Labor, Sydney will grind to a halt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of the Matildas opening game at the FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup, Sydney\u2019s train network is again in chaos with commuters forced to pay for union industrial action in the lead up to this year\u2019s election. The Labor Government\u2019s Train Review1 released earlier this year concluded the cause of the significant increase in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/07\/21\/another-labor-own-goal-as-sydney-trains-in-chaos-ahead-of-world-cup-opener\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another Labor own goal as Sydney trains in chaos ahead of World Cup opener&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21891,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21890\/revisions\/21891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}