The NSW Government began a four week trial at Town Hall station today involving event style marshalling in morning peak hour to reduce the amount of time trains are stopped at the station.
Ms Berejiklian was quick to reassure listeners that the 16 "door managers" at the station aren't pushing large groups of people onto the train like a rugby scrum.
"We're actually setting up the platform service so that if you're going onto the train you stand in a different area, if you're coming off the train you're standing in a different area.
"Any one of us who's tried to catch the train at peak hour, getting on or off at Town Hall [knows] there's a huge crush of people trying to get off and others trying to squeeze themselves on. This way we're demarcating where people get on the train and where they get off," she told Adam Spencer.
Ms Berejiklian revealed on Friday that 690 jobs would be slashed from Railcorp; that's on top of 750 voluntary redundancies already announced.
She believes the network is in the dark ages.
"In terms of middle managers, Railcorp had over 4000 middle managers; that's causing enormous red tape... For example, if you're a staff member on the front line, trying to work on a station, you might need to get four or five signatures to be able to do something, if there's a minor incident on a platform, you have to wait around and wait for someone else to do it when you can fix it yourself," she says.
The Minister hopes the Railcorp shake-up will eventually allow for track work to be done at night rather than on the weekend.
"Every single weekend we have to shut down part of the network and that's annoying for our customers. If we for example ran track work at night when trains weren't running and we were clever about the way we do things, we'd actually reduce disruption," she says.
At this stage, the O'Farrell Government has no plans to ditch the $12 surcharge to travel by train to Sydney airport.
Ms Berejiklian says the surchage is attached to a contract the government inherited.
"It would cost a lot of money to [reduce the cost]... It would literally cost hundreds of millions of dollars over a four year period to be able to do that... and even though at a particular point in time the state government will start recouping some of that money back, it's unfortunately already accounted for in our forward estimates."
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