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‘I don’t think the government cares about us,’ says pensioner Diane Griffiths as she waits on a milk crate for a bus near Mount Druitt in Sydney’s west. Residents say the area’s public transport is unreliable and slow. Photograph: Aston Brown/The Guardian

Diane Griffiths is done waiting.

The 76-year-old pensioner has lived in Willmot, an outer suburb near Mount Druitt in western Sydney, for more than half a century. In that time, she says, she has watched services in the area stagnate and decline.