Probably tautology: all fluff is nauseous.

With my ocr down for a while, I have just had to process 3 months [certainly
not 3 month's] of press releases from NSW, Vic. & NZ.
NSW eclipsed the other two combined, although both put up a fighting effort.
Vic. tried to score with 'all our problems will be fixed with RRL', then
found it was trailing, and came up with 'all our problems will be fixed with
Melbourne metro'.
NZ countered with: 'This overpriced product isn't a train ride, it is an
international tourism experience'.
NSW just smothered the opposition with size and with slogans: it just had to
win by sheer volume, and it succeeded. Not only did it fool newspapers and
the general public, it fooled astute transport hobbyists, notably TDU
posters.

Restickering the trains does not consitute fixing them, and there is nothing
in the current program fixing anything. It pays all TDU posters to stick to
a heading 'Fixing online punctuation', and not fall for the government trap.
All the money has gone into rebranding: ie to party-hack 'consultants', and
small-business operators.
The logo was stolen from an NZ airmail sticker, and printing in multiple
colours does not constitute a 'new customer focussed approach'.

The proposals for a north-west 'metro' are a total technical disaster,
beating Victoria (if only narrowly) for bullshit baffling brains.

'Ftt' has eclipsed 'team' and 'world-class' as meaningless jargon of two
quarters of 2013.

First you get down on your knees
Pray to Gladys if you please
Hold your opal like a prize, and
Privatise privatise privatise

It didn't work as Kennett's legacy to Victoria; it hasn't a hope in NSW
either.
There is a lowest common denominator: bring out managers from UK. Try a
country which does operate suburban systems with success, and privatisation
might work.
Even Europe has gone to the dogs under EEC policies.
Try India (government) or Japan (private).
'Alas my son, when all else fails, migrate, run trains in New South Wales'
[Hillaire Belloc?].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor