Sydney will cop free train rides next week thanks to the epic battle between the NSW Government and the Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU). It is the never-ending saga, the political war to end all political wars, and yet I am merely a commuting peasant manifesting a free train ride to Central.
So how the fuck have we managed to snare five days of free train rides?
In essence, because of union demands: basically Premier Dominic Perrottet agreed to the free transport for Sydney to stop RTBU industrial action.
The union had initially planned to refuse to operate the foreign-built trains in our fleet from Monday to Friday. That’s around three quarters of all the trains according to The Sydney Morning Herald