Queensland Rail

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Couriermail --> Train drivers pocket overtime while commuter numbers plummet

Queensland Rail has paid more than $1 million in driver overtime during the coronavirus crisis, even as the number of people travelling on trains has dropped by 80 per cent. QR's boss says it's all about social distancing.

QUEENSLAND Rail has shelled out more than $1 million dollars in overtime to drivers as patronage has plummeted a massive 80 per cent during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Courier-Mail can reveal drivers earned an average $1678.24 in overtime in the four weeks to April 12 – a month when escalating coronavirus restrictions forced employees to quit the commute and work from home.

That added up to a bill of $1.23 million across QR's 737 drivers, despite years of efforts to attack a systemic reliance on taxpayer-funded overtime that helped create the 2016 'Rail Fail' debacle.

The overtime bill comes as State Treasurer Jackie Trad earlier this week said Treasury officials were hunting savings to fund business and worker support programs in the face of a more than $4 billion hit to revenue.

It was revealed last year at budget estimates that QR anticipated a $28.1 million overtime bill for rail crew in 2019-20.

State Opposition transport spokesman Steve Minnikin attacked the State Government over the ongoing overtime cost, saying it made "no sense" given the dramatic fall in patronage.

"No one disputes workers being paid for the work they do, but taxpayers demand efficiency – not a rail system run by the union that is clearly gaming the system," he said.

But QR boss Nick Easy has defended the overtime as "necessary," saying QR had continued to run full services during the pandemic to enable social distancing on-board for commuters making essential trips.

He said the overtime bill had fallen 8.76 per cent compared to the same four weeks in 2019 when there were 462 less weekly train services.

The overtime back then cost QR $1.35 million over four weeks, or $2042 on average per driver.

"Like any rail network worldwide which relies on shift workers, overtime is a necessary part of working patterns for Queensland Rail's traincrew," Mr Easy said.

"We've maintained our regular timetable just as other major capital cities like Sydney and Melbourne are doing, to provide social distancing for commuters, to ensure essential workers including frontline healthcare staff who often work shifts can get to work to support our community and to provide travel for essential reasons such as medical appointments."

Driver overtime has been a controversial topic since the October 2016 'Rail Fail' led to the shock cancellation of hundreds of services.

It exposed a systematic reliance on overtime payments to keep the trains running, with the 2017 Strachan Report into the crisis finding a structural shortfall of train crew was used to provide "overtime opportunities".

Driver vacancies were budgeted for, but remained unfilled, it found. Some drivers in 2017-18 were raking in tens of thousands of dollars in overtime a year.

The top earning driver that financial year earned $134,129, including $76,187 in overtime.

The Strachan Report recommended hiring a surplus of train crew and removing the "systemic reliance on overtime, which should be reserved for "temporary increases in demand".

Commuter group Rail Back on Track said it supported the decision to run a full timetable during the COVID-19 restrictions, but questioned the overtime and net gain in QR drivers after driver attrition.

QR has hired 200 extra drivers since the 2016 rail collapse, with 87 drivers in training, but the gains have previously been hit by the number of retiring drivers.

Mr Easy said contingency measures had been put in place should rail workers be impacted by COVID-19.

A TransLink spokesman said patronage had dropped about 80 per cent on buses and trains last week compared to the same period in 2019, but TransLink services were still carrying 98,000 people a day on average.

Brisbane City Council's bus network has also kept to its usual timetable amid the restrictions.

The Transperth transport network has been an outlier in cutting services during the pandemic.

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https://twitter.com/MarkBaileyMP/status/1257082995933974528

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https://twitter.com/9NewsQueensland/status/1257201250011172865

[SteelPan]

BUT hold-on, aren't all these media organisations banging on about SE-Qld hosting an Olympic Games in a little over a decade?

1) So what standard of rail service, come Hell or High-water, should an Olympic aspiring region have....a 1960's timetable?

2) During this Covid-19 period, how much are under-utlilised schools, sports stadiums, picnic grounds and more costing taxpayers?

3) QR can certainly be inefficient, half the time I get the impression they and their State Govt masters would like to provide about zero train services if they could - getting them to grow the network, is harder than achieving cold nuclear fusion - but these ''trains cost money to run'' stories are among the dumbest that get churned out every 12-18 months, usually under the cover of some social drama of the moment...this time, a virus!

So Courier-Mail and Channel 9 - do you support a modern SE-Qld, a region that could host an Olympics or, are you wanting to go back to Cobb & Co days?

[ozbob]

Couriermail --> Opinion: Action long overdue on QR train driver overtime issue

Revelations that train drivers have been paid more than $1 million in overtime as passenger numbers dropped off during the COVID-19 crisis is a stark reminder that there is still much more that needs to be fixed at Queensland Rail.

SIX months out from the state election and in the middle of the biggest economic crisis in a century, Queensland Rail management has been caught squandering taxpayer money on overtime for train crews.

Today's revelations that Queensland Rail has shelled out $1.23 million in overtime to drivers in the past month as patronage has fallen off a cliff during the COVID-19 pandemic is a stark reminder that there is still much work to do in fixing the statutory authority, which is wholly owned by the Queensland Government – the same government that says it is looking under every rock for savings, as it should be.

At a time when most commuters are not riding on trains, surely services could be trimmed to meet demand, and overtime should be at zero – or close to it.

When Queenslanders were told they should use public transport only for essential ­travel, Queensland Rail should have followed the path set by Western Australia, where services were cut during the pandemic.

But instead, QR insisted on running ghost trains around the network and justifying its
decision on the basis that Sydney and Melbourne had kept their normal services.

In total, QR anticipates the overtime bill for rail crew in 2019-20 will hit $28.1 million.

That is money the state can ill-afford to lose at a time when Treasurer Jackie Trad has predicted the state's massive debt will eclipse the forecast $92 billion due to COVID-19.

And this is an issue that should have already been fixed. The overtime fiasco is recurring and is caused by QR not having enough drivers to run the network to capacity, and a systemic reliance on taxpayer-funded overtime that helped create the 2016 "Rail Fail" debacle – which was closely examined by the 2017 Strachan Report into the crisis.

That report uncovered a closed-shop scandal: that a structural shortfall of train crew was being used to provide "overtime opportunities" for staff.

That those restrictive work practices by drivers should end and those closed-shop recruitment processes must be broken was self-evident. But three years, on has anything significant changed?

QR has made modest progress by hiring 200 extra drivers since the 2016 rail collapse – with 87 drivers in training – but it's not sufficient to end the shortage due to retirements. But there is no shortage of young Queenslanders who would like to secure a job as a driver – a job for life where you can earn up to $134,129 a year.

Other costly recent errors at QR where taxpayers have had to pick up the bill include fixing design problems with the state's $4.4 billion new passenger trains, in which toilets were not wheelchair-accessible and corridors were too narrow. The fix will cost the Palaszczuk Government $336 million and it's not due to be completed until 2024. Only two months ago, mould was found on some of these trains, believed to be caused by excess moisture during Queensland's humid summer. Ah well, maybe we should just run them in winter ...

The Government really should be demanding more of Queensland Rail. And the first demand should be that from today these ridiculous overtime bills be stopped.

[Gazza]

Other costly recent errors at QR where taxpayers have had to pick up the bill include fixing design problems with the state's $4.4 billion new passenger trains, in which toilets were not wheelchair-accessible and corridors were too narrow.

That wasn't QRs fault.

[James]

I think it is a bit much to take aim at QR over a measly $1m overtime bill.

The worst part about #RailFail was the random ripping out of services. Perhaps some 'low hanging fruit' could have been considered for service reductions (late-night services to Northgate, a few of those short-running services in the peaks), but I imagine any notable 'service reductions' would have involved haphazard service removal, benefiting nobody.

If services were cut, it would have inconvenienced essential workers and risked driving even more people away from public transport (as if the COVID-19 panic was not threatening enough).

PT also needs to be kept attractive for when passengers do return - carmageddon looks likely enough without service cuts...

[BrizCommuter]

QR did the right thing by not reducing services due to COVID-19. The press would have been even more scathing if people had sent in photos of trains being too busy for social distancing on a reduced timetable. In both NYC and London services were reduced and we all know what happened there! 

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https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/tableOffice/questionsAnswers/2020/524-2020.pdf

Question on Notice
No. 524
Asked on Thursday 21 May 2020

MR S MINNIKIN ASKED MINISTER FOR TRANSPORT AND MAIN ROADS (HON M BAILEY)

QUESTION:

With reference to the Queensland Rail City Train network—

Will the Minister advise (a) the actual number of train drivers, (b) the actual number of guards,
(c) the overtime budget for the 2019-20 financial year for train crew separated by driver/guard
category and (d) the actual year-to-date overtime amounts paid to drivers/guards shown on a
fortnightly basis?

ANSWER:

I thank the Member for Chatsworth for the question.

As the former Assistant Minister for Public Transport under the Newman LNP Government the
Member would be aware that no drivers started training in 2014 and this was accompanied by a
net reduction of 48 drivers during the period of the LNP Government.

The Newman Government did this when they had full knowledge that the new Redcliffe Peninsula
line was due to open in 2016 with six new stations, as well as the Gold Coast 2018
Commonwealth Games—the largest sporting event in Australia in a decade—creating high
demand for Queensland Rail services on a 24/7 basis.

As a result, the LNP Government oversaw an increase in Citytrain driver overtime of over 25.2 per
cent in 2014–15.

It is not unusual for operational workforces, like traincrew, to operate with a certain level of
overtime as part of their standard working patterns. This enables flexibility among its workforce
to meet demand changes, such as for special event services.

Queensland Rail's use of overtime and its traincrew supply is far more sustainable now—in
comparison to October 2016 when the Redcliffe Peninsula line opened—despite 494 weekly
services being added to the timetable between May 2019 and March 2020.

In 2018–19, the use of traincrew overtime continued to stabilise, with the average hours of
overtime worked by each Citytrain driver representing an 18.09 per cent decrease compared with
2016–17, when the Redcliffe Peninsula line opened.

Queensland Rail's planning for the 2019 and 2020 service uplifts reflected a managed approach
towards traincrew overtime, with its unprecedented traincrew recruitment campaign ensuring
there were enough drivers to reliably and sustainably increase services. This planning, including
the consideration of overtime levels, was endorsed by the independent Citytrain Response Unit.

(a) Queensland Rail has advised there were 669 drivers (including tutors and train operation
inspectors) on the network as at 30 April 2020.

(b) Queensland Rail has advised there were 669 guards (including tutors) on the network as at
30 April 2020.

(c) Queensland Rail has advised that the 2019–20 overtime budget is $14.3 million for drivers
and $13.8 million for guards (excluding tutors and train operation inspectors).

(d) Queensland Rail has further advised that for the pay periods ending 7 July 2019 to 26 April
2020, the total overtime figure was $14,041,987 for drivers and $9,925,751 for guards
(including tutors).

Queensland Rail has further advised that for the pay periods ending 7 July 2019 to 26 April 2020,
the average fortnightly overtime figure was $879 for drivers and $673 for guards (including tutors).

Queensland Rail continues to recruit and train a pipeline of drivers and guards to ensure it
continues to offer sustainable and reliable services now and into the future.

Queensland Rail has been focused on improving services and has added an additional 494
weekly services to the timetable between May 2019 and March 2020. Queensland Rail is now
operating 740 additional weekly South East Queensland rail services than when the LNP was in
government.

[BrizCommuter]

Looks like the government is confusing "added services" with "restored services".

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Couriermail --> Queensland Rail overtime bill revealed

Millions of dollars in overtime was paid out to Queensland Rail drivers and guards in the past year, with new figures revealing just how many drivers actually now work on the network.

QUEENSLAND Rail forked out more than $23 million in overtime to its drivers and guards in the past year and is yet to finalise an overtime budget for the current financial year.

New figures reveal the average fortnightly overtime pay for a driver in the financial year through to April 26 was about $879, while the average overtime figure for a guard was $673 a fortnight.

The rail network paid out at least $14 million in overtime for drivers over the roughly ten month period, while about $9.92 million was spent on overtime for guards.

It means the average overtime bill for the rail operator for the first 10 months of the 2019-20 financial year was over $75,000 every day.

Queensland Rail chief executive Nick Easy insisted the network had worked "tirelessly" since October 2016 to improve the sustainability of traincrew supply and use of overtime.

He also confirmed that they were still "working to finalise" the traincrew overtime budget for the 2020-21 financial year.

"In 2019-20 we introduced 462 additional weekly train services for southeast Queensland and successfully restored the Monday to Friday timetable, with Queensland Rail now operating more weekly services than ever before," Mr Easy said.

"Like any rail network worldwide which relies on shift workers, overtime is a necessary part of working patterns for Queensland Rail's traincrew."

Queensland Rail had 693 drivers working on the network by the end of the 2019-20 financial year – an increase of 58 over 12 months. This included train operation inspectors and tutors.

Guards working for the rail operator also increased from 566 to 684 over the course of the financial year.

Mr Easy said Queensland Rail had undertaken the largest traincrew recruitment in its history.

"We will continue to take a controlled approach to overtime as we move forward to deliver reliable services in 2020-21," he said.

In 2018-19, the average hours of overtime worked by each Citytrain driver dropped by about 18 per cent when compared to 2016-17.

Transport Minister Mark Bailey defended the overtime bill, saying in response to a recent question on notice that it was not unusual for operational workforces to operate with a certain level of overtime as part of its standard working patterns.

"This enables flexibility among its workforce to meet demand changes, such as for special event services," he said.

"Queensland Rail's use of overtime and its traincrew supply is far more sustainable now – in comparison to October 2016 when the Redcliffe Peninsula line opened – despite 494 weekly services being added to the timetable between May 2019 and March 2020."

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Queensland Parliament Hansard

https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/hansard/2020/2020_07_14_DAILY.pdf

Questions Without Notice

Queensland Rail, Staffing

Mr MINNIKIN: My question is to the Premier. Two and a half years after the Palaszczuk
government received the Strachan report, last year Queensland Rail paid train crews $24 million in
overtime, an average of $75,000 every day. With over 200,000 Queenslanders looking for a job and
the state's debt approaching $100 billion, why does the Premier keep in place the union's closed shop
for Queensland Rail?

Ms PALASZCZUK: I can get further details for the member in relation to that. I do not have that
information at hand.

Let me say that, in relation to our response to COVID, our transport system has responded
remarkably well. I really want to pay tribute to the work Queensland Rail workers have done, the extra
cleaning they have been doing on the trains, and making sure that our timetable is reflective to allow
even more capacity for people to get to and from work and spread out their travelling times. That is not
possible in other states. We have seen issues in Melbourne and Sydney in relation to packed public
transport as well as the fact that part of their plan was not to travel on public transport during, from
memory, stage 1 and stage 2. We have done a great job and I really want to thank everyone who has
been working in the transport industry.

In relation to your specific question, I will ask the Minister for Transport to provide me with some
further details.

Mr BLEIJIE: Mr Speaker, I rise to a point of order. As per your previous precedents, the Premier
has indicated she will get further details. Is the Premier taking that on notice pursuant to—

Ms Palaszczuk: No, I will respond.

Mr BLEIJIE: If I could finish my point of order, Mr Speaker. Will the Premier be taking that on
notice pursuant to standing order 113, as is custom in this place?

Mr SPEAKER: No, that is not what the Premier has indicated.

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Latest train crew figures:

" net increase of 168 driver and 213 qualified guards "

This was from the Ministers response to a Matter of Public Interest concerning CRR yesterday

https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/hansard/2020/2020_07_14_DAILY.pdf page 1551

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Brisbanetimes --> Minister says Queensland Rail's $28 million overtime bill 'normal'

"Queensland train drivers and guards pocketed more than half a million dollars in overtime each week last financial year, despite patronage plunging during the pandemic.

But Transport Minister Mark Bailey said the multimillion-dollar overtime bill was "normal".

State government data revealed during budget estimates showed $28.3 million was shelled out on overtime pay last financial year.

Mr Bailey said that number was expected to drop to $24.3 million in 2020-21, as the state had invested in training more drivers. ...

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https://twitter.com/ozbob13/status/1383571178770505728

[#Metro]

New operator please!

[achiruel]

New operator please!

Which will fix what, exactly? Nothing! Most of the problems at QR have been caused by DTMR incompetence, and changing the operator won't fix that.

[HappyTrainGuy]

As said above changing operator won't do a single thing. Emus were supposed to be phased out by now and more ngr trains from India were to be in boats providing fleet expansion/prep for the costly SMU200. The 2nd and 3rd phase of the NGRs have been scrapped and half the EMU phase out was completed before state government canned the project. Only a few components were taken from the withdrawn emus because they weren't expected to be maintained for long due to the phase out. EMUs are now undertaking extension of life tests. Changing operator won't fix the emu parts shortfall. Changing operator won't resolve the electrical issues with SMU200 (a couple have already undergone expensive repairs). New rollingstock is a tmr run project. It's a second take of the ngr project with new mtce facilities, new manufacture, staff outside of qr etc etc. NGR mtce operations at Wulkuraka are having their own management problems (not qr). New operator won't speed up the ngr refits. New operator won't fix the fundamental flaws with CRR and its future network running. And the list does go on.

[ozbob]

^ thanks.  Not looking great at present. No wonder CRR rail service plans are TOP SECRET .... 

[ozbob]

New operator please!

Which will fix what, exactly? Nothing! Most of the problems at QR have been caused by DTMR incompetence, and changing the operator won't fix that.

Agreed.  Great shame we don't have a proper public transport authority with a heavy rail division.  I fear we are just going to slide further backwards under the present dysfunctional arrangements.  The track record of failure speaks for itself.  There is also the failure of the political types to grasp the fact they are being fed nonsense as well.

And now, things are very precarious indeed.  Bumblers are still there ... bumbling!!

[achiruel]

I honestly think we need to go back to TransLink being a statutory authority, reporting to the Minister for Public Transport directly rather than DG DTMR, and QR returned to bring a GOC (with the Minister for Transport and Minister for Public Transport being the shareholding Ministers) and TTA contracting QR to operate rail services. This of course assumes we somehow get a Minister for Public Transport in the first place...

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I honestly think we need to go back to TransLink being a statutory authority, reporting to the Minister for Public Transport directly rather than DG DTMR, and QR returned to bring a GOC (with the Minister for Transport and Minister for Public Transport being the shareholding Ministers) and TTA contracting QR to operate rail services. This of course assumes we somehow get a Minister for Public Transport in the first place...

Yes, that was much better than the present arrangements.   It seems that the Government has given up on changing anything now.  It was a recommendation publicly pending by the CRU but that is history. 

We are now in a spot of bother with the overall network and operations.  Rolling stock is not adequate. CRR is shrouded in non-transparency. No significant progress with network improvements or LX removals.  All on the Olympics, but they are struggling to do the fundamentals.  Nothing is going to happen with #fastraildreaming either. 

The SEQ Council of Mayors should be focussing on what is achievable not dreams ...

It hurts my head to see the babble rolled out by the overstaffed overpaid  media team ensconced in the confines of Big Willy ...

massaged media messages ...

[Cleveland Line]

3 carriage train to Cleveland dept South Bank at 5.42pm tonight.

Needless to say...packed and leaving (hopeful) passengers behind.

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Couriermail --> Cross River Rail train 'shortage' to leave commuters stranded: Opposition $

... Opposition Transport spokesman Steve Minnikin said the government's order of 20 new trains would not be enough.

"This is yet another example of where this Labor State Government overpromises and underdelivers," he said.

"They've already watered down the number of train services they originally promised, and it's now doubtful that they'll even have enough trains to run these services. ...

[ozbob]

Whoa! More  Trouble in Paradise 

Rollingstock fleet is inadequate, there is no way the will have new trains by 2025.  More spin and babble.

STOP SCRAPPING THE EMUS !! 

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Thanks 'Cleveland Line' for the report ..

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[HappyTrainGuy]

Whoa! More  Trouble in Paradise 

Rollingstock fleet is inadequate, there is no way the will have new trains by 2025.  More spin and babble.

STOP SCRAPPING THE EMUS !! 

Quite frankly the EMUs are done especially when you take into account their operating costs, lack of spares and problems. Not to mention how state government are removing/consolidating assets (as you can see with the NGR and REP projects all requiring their own dedicated facilities). Most of the units being scrapped are the older units and units with single driving cabs. And to be honest the 200's should be scrapped soon as well. Several had been withdrawn from service over the recent years as bean counters worked out to scrap them or redo electrical rewiring. They were rewired.

[ozbob]

I was being a bit tongue in cheek 

But take out the EMUs and SMU200s we are in trouble.

The NGR program has been a major failure.  I hold little hope for the next batch of ' new trains ' it's going to be many years and if it is same sort of set up as the NGRs hardly inspiring or hopeful.

Yes, in trouble ...

[HappyTrainGuy]

I thought you may have been

But there really isn't any way to save face. The next best thing would be to cut additional planned services on other lines, push through 9 car services with the REP and upgrade the station infrastructure which would be realisticly quite cheap. Yes you loose frequency but gain capacity. As other infrastructure is built (Beaudesert/Camcos) you can then get creative with rollingstock and phaseouts.

But that depends on who is running the show. So currently I suspect they'll pump out 6 car units and keep the status quo as it's cheaper now rather than move to implement a network that would function around 9 car services using CRR. Bit more costly short term but opens up a lot more functionality in the long term ie 9/6 cars for long distance, 6 cars for infill and 3 cars for shorter routes and peak hour runs ie Northgate/park road/doomben/rosewood/gympie and Nambour shuttles or even a inbound Northgate-Roma street dead run to Northgate peak service.

[HappyTrainGuy]

I was being a bit tongue in cheek 

Hell, bring back the doomben splitter! (Services either dead ran to doomben or did their normal run in 6 car config. They'd split into 2x 3 car units and run to Roma street P3/P4 before rejoining and stowed there until after peak).

[ozbob]

I miss the old Darra Flyer.  An express peak Roma St - Darra, by crikey it was quick.   

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https://twitter.com/ozbob13/status/1392903918548512770

[achiruel]

Maybe Bailey should get on the blower to Rita Saffioti and see if hey'd like to sell us a few of their C sets? 

[ozbob]

Maybe Bailey should get on the blower to Rita Saffioti and see if hey'd like to sell us a few of their C sets? 

Too right .... need to do something 

[ozbob]

https://twitter.com/fel_caldwell/status/1399976985116364801

[#Metro]

Now that is solved... Roll On competitive tendering!! 

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Brisbanetimes --> Queensland Rail finally hits target of 200 new drivers

Years after rostering shortfalls ground Queensland Rail services to a halt, the operator has finally overcome a major hurdle to prevent mass cancellations and ensure the network runs smoothly.

Queensland Rail has hired 214 train drivers and 241 guards, with the net figures taking into account workers who retire or quit.

... Queensland Rail previously anticipated it would reach its target of 200 new drivers by the end of 2019 but that date was revised to late 2020.

Transport Minister Mark Bailey said the overtime bill had "dropped considerably" as more guards and drivers were hired. ...

... Mr Bailey said Queensland Rail had hired more than 300 new train drivers and 500 guards, but conceded those figures were gross, not net. ,,,

^ well done Felicity on reporting the correct NET figures. 

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Brisbanetimes --> Queensland Rail cuts staff surplus targets to save cash

Queensland Rail has cut a key target to hire extra drivers to ensure trains turn up on time because it costs too much money.

The Strachan Inquiry, launched after hundreds of cancellations marred the network in 2016, recommended Queensland Rail maintain a "structural surplus" of train crew to avoid a systemic reliance on overtime.

The inquiry found the over-reliance on overtime and a shortage of train drivers contributed to rolling cancellations that followed the opening of the Redcliffe Peninsula Line.

However, the final report of the Citytrain Response Unit, which has now been disbanded, reveals targets for a staff surplus have since been reviewed.

"The initial (structural surplus) target set in the Strachan Inquiry, to deliver the timetable without the systemic reliance on overtime, would significantly increase train crew cost through increases in unproductive shifts for train crew," the report reads.

"The target set by Queensland Rail is consistent with other jurisdictions and maintains the reliability of the service, thus meeting the intent of the recommendation.

"This approach minimises the overall train crew cost." ...

[ozbob]

^

" ....
The Citytrain report states 35 of the 36 recommendations from the Strachan Inquiry have been completed.

Recommendation 36a-c remains open after the Citytrain Response Unit recommended a review of how greater integration across public transport agencies could be achieved.

"Further work is required to ensure Queensland's public transport arrangements are suitable for supporting the successful delivery and operation of forthcoming network changes, including Cross River Rail, the European Train Control System, the Brisbane Metro and a possible Olympic bid," the report states. ... "

Bring it on!  Public Transport Queensland - lets get rail out of DTMR ASAP !!!

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