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  • Why Tangaras don't have an internal emergency door release.

    From Sylvia Else@sylvia@email.invalid to aus.rail on Tue Feb 4 17:01:39 2020
    From Newsgroup: aus.rail

    <https://www.dropbox.com/s/fol1kuqtejqk2b9/20S-0072%20-%20Cabinet%20Paper%20-%20October%202009%20-%20for%20release.pdf?dl=0>

    I don't remember any announcement by the government that the retrofit
    program was being scaled back.

    Of course, if RailCorp hadn't decided to introduce the crew-override,
    the program wouldn't have cost so much.

    Sylvia.
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  • From Bob@bob@bob.com to aus.rail on Tue Feb 4 13:39:34 2020
    From Newsgroup: aus.rail

    Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
    <https://www.dropbox.com/s/fol1kuqtejqk2b9/20S-0072%20-%20Cabinet%20Paper%20-%20October%202009%20-%20for%20release.pdf?dl=0>

    I don't remember any announcement by the government that the retrofit program was being scaled back.

    Of course, if RailCorp hadn't decided to introduce the crew-override,
    the program wouldn't have cost so much.

    Sylvia.


    Do you have appendix C?

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  • From Sylvia Else@sylvia@email.invalid to aus.rail on Wed Feb 5 10:40:13 2020
    From Newsgroup: aus.rail

    On 5/02/2020 12:39 am, Bob wrote:
    Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
    <https://www.dropbox.com/s/fol1kuqtejqk2b9/20S-0072%20-%20Cabinet%20Paper%20-%20October%202009%20-%20for%20release.pdf?dl=0>

    I don't remember any announcement by the government that the retrofit
    program was being scaled back.

    Of course, if RailCorp hadn't decided to introduce the crew-override,
    the program wouldn't have cost so much.

    Sylvia.


    Do you have appendix C?


    No, and it's not clear why not. Using GIPA is like getting blood from a
    stone. Agencies use any and every pretext to avoid releasing
    information. You might notice that financial information has been
    omitted from this document. That was on the basis that knowing a ten
    year old budget allowance would affect how companies bid for work.

    I have a related GIPA request that's probably going to end up before the
    Civil and Administrative Tribunal, because so little information was
    released (it's currently with the Information Commissioner). This may
    have to be added to that.

    Sylvia.
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  • From Sylvia Else@sylvia@email.invalid to aus.rail on Fri Feb 7 16:24:32 2020
    From Newsgroup: aus.rail

    On 5/02/2020 10:40 am, Sylvia Else wrote:
    On 5/02/2020 12:39 am, Bob wrote:
    Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
    <https://www.dropbox.com/s/fol1kuqtejqk2b9/20S-0072%20-%20Cabinet%20Paper%20-%20October%202009%20-%20for%20release.pdf?dl=0>


    I don't remember any announcement by the government that the retrofit
    program was being scaled back.

    Of course, if RailCorp hadn't decided to introduce the crew-override,
    the program wouldn't have cost so much.

    Sylvia.


    Do you have appendix C?


    No, and it's not clear why not. Using GIPA is like getting blood from a stone. Agencies use any and every pretext to avoid releasing
    information. You might notice that financial information has been
    omitted from this document. That was on the basis that knowing a ten
    year old budget allowance would affect how companies bid for work.

    I have a related GIPA request that's probably going to end up before the Civil and Administrative Tribunal, because so little information was released (it's currently with the Information Commissioner). This may
    have to be added to that.

    Sylvia.

    Sydney Trains have advised that they do not have any other copy of the document, and that the only copy they have does not include Appendix C.
    This seems a bit suspicious to me, but even the Civil and Administrative Tribunal is not able to extract documents that an agency claims not to have.

    Sylvia.
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