Letter: Stop whingeing about rail network

OPINION: It seems almost every week The Dominion Post reports complaints about the railway. That's hardly surprising given the condition of the whole infrastructure, which appears in need of a total upgrade.

The Wellington rail network can't be changed overnight. I guess it might take up to two years.

Your Government is spending many dollars on new rolling stock, double-tracking, upgrading platforms and overhead wires.

People should spare a thought for the men working on the lines overnight, in wind and rain, so that the trains can keep running today.

The railway to Petone might have been built in a month, as one correspondent said, but no one was running trains along it at the same time. Nor were they stringing up overhead wires from poles with 5m-plus deep foundations.

People's patience is wearing thin but soon they will arrive at the upgraded station and find their new warm and air-conditioned train running on time.

They will have a super system with trains to Waikanae. They should stop whingeing.

JOHN MORLEY

Wotton-Under-Edge, Gloucestershire

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