Public transport timetable changes cause frustration
Lockdown update: From Monday 19 July, all public transport services within Greater Sydney including the Central Coast will run to a reduced timetable. School services may be impacted according to…
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Four carriage trains not enough for morning peak times
Forum – I am quite angry that in the morning peak period they are putting on four carriage trains instead of eight carriages from the Coast into Sydney. Social distancing…
Where were their masks?
Forum – I note (an article) in the December 24 edition of Community Coast News. The article indicates that the Member for Robertson Lucy Wicks and the Communications Minister rode…
Fifth person charged over train graffiti attacks
A fifth person has been charged over his alleged involvement in a spate of graffiti attacks which caused damage at train stations across Sydney and the Central Coast between May…
Inconvenient track work
Forum – I’m writing about the inconvenience of train track works from Newcastle interchange to Central. It’s unbelievable to do this work on the long weekend, right in the middle…
Weekly News 5@5
You are watching Coast Community News 5@5 October 16, 2020: Council and State Government lock horns on council’s finance crisis. PEP11 Gas industry challenged in Parliament. New trains arrive at…
Can’t we build our own trains?
Forum – The best trains being built are Australian, built in the Newcastle factory at Goninan’s near Broadmeadow, Newcastle. So I ask why is any government buying trains made overseas…
Passenger limits on trains and buses double
Life just got a little easier for Central Coast commuters, with changes to capacity limits on trains and buses coming into force on July 1 under the NSW Government’s COVID-safe…
Coast misses out on extra public transport services
The State Opposition and the Central Coast Commuters Association have slammed NSW Government plans to provide more than 3,000 extra public transport services for Sydney but none for the Central…
5@5 Weekly News
You’re watching 5@5, Friday May 22. This week chaos on trains feared, political stouch on TAFE in Gosford, School’s to return full time, Volunteer awards, NZ Warriors, Bees please &…
Monday-itis predicted for Coast commuters
The NSW Government’s new COVIDSafe Transport Plan was released on May 18, but it has left Central Coast commuters who rely on public transport wondering how they’ll get to work….
Social distancing on trains will be a problem
Central Coast Commuters Association is backing calls from the State Opposition for the enforcement of more social distancing and hygiene measures on our trains, with hundreds more commuters expected to…
Weekly Video News 5@5
[May 1, 2020] This week’s top news stories from the Central Coast; New Intercity Trains arrive, More Covid-19 testing for the Coast,unpopular telecommunications towers knocked back, Council prepares to pitch…
Train disruptions becoming more frequent
[Forum]Once again, on February 10, we experienced a disrupted chaotic journey to the city from Woy Woy: People left queuing with buses coming every 30 minutes during peak hour on…
Mobile boost for NSW Central Coast train commuters
Thousands of NSW Central Coast train commuters will start to experience the benefit of greater connectivity along the rail corridor between Hornsby and Wyong, with the first stage of upgrades…
Minister announces increase to 4 express trains an hour during peak
Central Coast customers will benefit from a doubling of express services to and from the Sydney CBD from September 30, with four express trains an hour during the morning and…
Transport NSW counts train passengers
Transport for NSW has confirmed it has been counting passengers on trains departing from Woy Woy for Central. But according to the Member for Gosford, Ms Liesl Tesch, they’ve been…
No room for luggage on busy trains
Over the past few weeks, we have seen on the local news bulletins, coverage of the fiasco that is Sydney trains, and all of it has been concentrated on what…
Study on reduction of train travel times between Sydney and Newcastle funded
Federal Member for Robertson, Ms Lucy Wicks, was joined by local state parliamentarians and a business leader, at Gosford railway station, on Friday, March 9, to announce that the NSW…
Passengers could be experiencing deja-vu over train problems
There is nothing new about Sydney Trains’ problems, it’s history repeating itself. Let’s go back to 1974, the NSW Liberal Government Premier, Robert Askin, hired Mr Phillip Shirley, an accountant…