Article: RailCorp repairs likely to take years not months according to NSW Trans

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RailCorp repairs likely to take years not months according to NSW Transport Minister

    HENRY BUDD
    The Daily Telegraph
    April 21, 2012 12:00AM

DRAGGING RailCorp into the 21st century will take years, not months, Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian admitted yesterday.

The state government is reviewing the organisation and will get a report in six months - but Ms Berejiklian said implementing the changes would take much longer.

"It's a massive, massive undertaking and, to be honest, to get the organisation from where it is to world best practice won't take months, it will take years," Ms Berejiklian said in a lunchtime address hosted by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia.

"I guess if RailCorp was providing a world-class service every day of the year you could excuse the cost of $10 million a day but under the current circumstances we do need to give that organisation a shake-up."

Ms Berejiklian said nothing was ruled in or out of the review and the results of the privatisation of Sydney Ferries services would determine whether more public transport services were sold off.

"I think by the end of the year when we have the operator in place, that will be for us a key milestone for how we might view those arrangements in the future," she said.

Ms Berejiklian said the current timetable would be completely overhauled next year.

"Rather than tinker with the timetable we will start from scratch, which means we can deal with issues like frequency and travel times."

She said previous governments also made cuts to the organisation but they cost more in the long run, adding: "For too long we have let things slide and that won't continue into the future."

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