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Tues.27.9 fast down diesel through Aurrey Hills at 11.10; up at 13.34 : yellow west end, EV red & yellow P at east end.
"220828-ABC-SRL-a-foratn-ss.jpg"
"220927Tu-'CanberraTimes'-carpark, with atn
Tues.27.9.22 Metro Twitter
Flinders St: still with a lane closed for tunnel works.
Because of tunnel works, Degraves St subway at Flinders St is closed until 2024. No platform transfer via Degraves St subway. Passengers should use Elizabeth & Swanston St entry/exits. Campbell Arcade remains closed to 2024. Platform interchange via that subway was available until mid 2022.
Bell: No lift access to platforms until Oct 2022, while works continue around the station precinct. A shuttle bus will run from Bell to Preston and Thornbury.
Heading to Royal Melbourne Show? We’re running more trains to the showgrounds to get you there and back.
Victoria’s newest station will open in Keilor East in 2029 as part of Melbourne Airport Rail. The station will link more than 150,000 residents to Victoria’s rail network for the first time. The project is being delivered by Rail Projects Victoria: https://bit.ly/3BORBY1
- Will the airport west tram link up with it?
- Take 7 years to build a new station?
- Make sure it's accessible & caters to active transport over cars. Add charging points. It must be safe and gives incredible comfort from the elements. A meeting point, child-friendly & incorporate nature. Provide healthy food & drink.
- Hope it is accessible for the visually impaired and disabled members of the community
- Will the East Keilor station be a myki location ?
- Not exactly Keilor East, might as well call it Airport West
- No East Pakenham
PT operators are hosting a Try Before You Ride event – to help those with accessibility or access requirements feel confident using PT. Join them Thurs, 6 Oct, to learn more about train, tram, bus & even taxi accessibility services: https://bit.ly/3LSzmpl TravellersAid
19.12 Craigieburn line: Major delays (an equipment fault in the Coolaroo area). Trains may terminate/originate at Broadmeadows. Consider alternative transport for local trips.
- 19.41 clearing.
Buses replace trains Clifton Hill - Mernda from 20.10 until the last train (maintenance works).
Sun.28.8.22 New cost-benefit analysis questions the value of Victoria's Suburban Rail Loop
The cost of Victoria's Suburban Rail Loop could outweigh its benefit according to new analysis
Analysis by the Parliamentary Budget Office found the cost of the Suburban Rail Loop would be far greater than the government estimated. (ABC News: Danielle Bonica)
New analysis of Victoria's Suburban Rail Loop suggests the project's cost could outweigh its benefit as the state's opposition launches another attack on the government over the scheme.
Key points:
The Parliamentary Budget Office found the Suburban Rail Loop would have a net social cost
The Victorian opposition has repeated its pledge to shelve the project if elected
The government announced 10,000 nursing and midwifery students would have their courses paid for
Victoria's independent Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) has released more of its assessment of the project, after being asked to evaluate the rail loop by the Victorian opposition.
The PBO found the first two stages of the project had a benefit-cost ratio between 0.6 and 0.7, indicating it was likely to result in a net social cost.
The office released analysis earlier this month which found the overall cost of the Suburban Rail Loop would be far greater than originally estimated by the government.
The Victorian opposition said it would put the project on hold and divert funding towards rebuilding the state's health system.
Shadow Treasurer David Davis said the new analysis from the PBO validates the opposition's plan to shelve the project if it wins the state election in November.
"The net benefit to the community is under the net cost. It's a negative outcome project in that respect, a dud project, a project that doesn't deliver for Victorians in the way we would expect," he said.
"We've said that the project should be shelved. We've said that the money should be redirected into our crumbling healthcare system, a healthcare system that has seen the triple-0 service repeatedly fail Victorians and has seen inadequate capacity in our hospitals."
Victorian Transport Infrastructure Minister Jacinta Allan and Premier Daniel Andrews launched construction of the Suburban Rail Loop in June. (AAP: Diego Fedele)
Victoria's Transport Minister Jacinta Allan said the government was committed to the project.
"Matthew Guy and the Liberals are saying they will cut the Suburban Rail Loop, cut the jobs, cut the connections that come with delivering a project like this and are trying to create a false choice," she said.
"It isn't hospitals or train lines, you have to do both in government."
Premier Daniel Andrews said it was not a matter of choosing the rail project at the expense of the health system.
"Whatever a government doesn't build is left to the next government and it always costs more and it's always more difficult," he said.
"If you stop a project that is underway and critically important, well, that's not the way we operate."
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-28/victoria-suburban-rail-loop-value-questioned/101380294
Perth family track down mystery teenager who performed life-saving CPR on train. Heather McNeill September 27, 2022. 10 comments
A Perth family has tracked down and thanked the mystery teenager who performed lifesaving CPR on their brother after he collapsed on a train on Thursday.
Gustavo Berna, 45, rushed to board his Thornlie line train in the city around 8.30am, running past Alanah Dunstan as he did so. The disability support worker, 18, followed Berna into the same carriage a few moments later.
Alanah Dunstan, right, saved Gustavo Berna’s life by giving him CPR after he collapsed on a Perth train. Berna’s family reached out to via Facebook to track down the person who helped him.
She had forgotten about the public holiday and was returning home after arriving to an empty office.
Minutes into the journey, Dunstan noticed Berna breathing heavily before he fell to the ground. She and others on the train rushed to put him into the recovery position before the group realised his pulse had stopped.
Dunstan, who was trained in senior first aid said she instructed someone to call triple-zero and another person to alert the train driver.
“Instantly I just went and started CPR on him and time went by so quickly,” she told Radio 6PR.
“We stopped at Burswood, the next one down, the train driver came out and saw me giving CPR in the middle of the aisle and he ran back into his carriage and all of a sudden we were heading at break-neck speed back to Perth where the ambulances met us there.”
Berna’s sister-in-law, Nicola Berna, said he suffered a heart attack, with doctors telling the family he may not wake up. However, on Saturday, he regained consciousness and was transferred out of the intensive care unit into the cardiac ward.
“It really is a testament to the CPR Alanah did ... it’s really nothing short of a miracle,” she said.
“Thank you isn’t enough for what you’ve done and our family’s so grateful.”
Nicola found Dunstan after posting on a Facebook community page, asking if anyone knew the person who saved her brother-in-law’s life on a Perth train. The message eventually got back to Dunstan, and the group plan to meet once Berna has recovered.
According to St John WA, around 225 people go into cardiac arrest in a public place each year. Most do not survive.
Dunstan said she hoped the positive story would encourage others to also get their first aid training.
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/perth-family-track-down-mystery-teenager-who-performed-life-saving-cpr-on-train-20220927-p5blc0.html
https://www.theage.com.au/national/western-australia/perth-family-track-down-mystery-teenager-who-performed-life-saving-cpr-on-train-20220927-p5blc0.html
* That is inspiring - it sounds like the error in attending work that day was meant to be! thank Goodness! Sometimes the News is so depressing and then to find there is a person with such a caring personality is definitely inspiring - Thanks also to the others who do these deeds without being found.
Another wonderful young Western Australian. Our future is in good hands having people such as Ms Dunstan willing to step up when there is a need.
Brilliant. Well done, girl.
Someone saved my Dad by doing CPR on a peak-hour train in Richmond Victoria. It was a hot day and Dad was 86 at the time. Disastrous mix! He lived another 13 years. We could never find the young man and wished so much we could have thanked him. The pearl here was that the young lady also contacted the driver so he turned around and got to Perth asap
She wasn't even supposed to have been there as she hadn't remembered the public holiday. Wonderful outcome to what must have been thought to have been a waste of time.
A defib should be located in the train.
Defibs only help with certain heart rhythms. If the man had no pulse at all a defibrillator might not have been any help at all. Sounds like the CPR kept circulation and therefore oxygen to the brain and heart. That’s what saved him.
Vandals would totally destroy them but maybe the driver could have one!
Wow! Amazing job Alanah. I have experienced a love one having a heart attack in public myself. I was a complete basket case and all my first aid training flew out of my head. Fortunately a passer by stopped his car and jumped out to assist us. If it werent for him we would have lost our loved one.
Thank you to all the people who learn CPR and first aid, families of the loved one you save will be forever grateful.
I just wish I could have gotten the name of the man who helped us to thank him. He will always be the heroic stranger with angel wings to us!
Well done Alanah
Car parks to close in Civic at City Hill this week to set up light rail construction work sites. Jasper Lindell September 27 2022. 10 Comments
The ACT government will close some of its car parks at City Hill this week. Picture by Rohan Thomson
Motorists will lose access to about half of one of the ACT government's largest surface car parks in the city centre this week, as work begins to set up a construction compound for the complex work to raise London Circuit.
Work will soon begin to establish the compound at the City Hill car park, at the corner of London Circuit and Constitution Avenue, where 330 of the 650 car parks will be closed.
The government will also shut 165 spaces at its 41 Marcus Clarke Street car park on October 5, with car parks to be shut at the Acton Waterfront and the south-west corner of London Circuit in coming months.
The government will close or change access to 665 of the city centre's approximately 14,250 public parking spaces, with spots progressively removed as site compounds and work sites are set up.
The main site office for the raising London Circuit project will be at the City Hill car park.
The project is expected to take about two years to complete.
ACT Transport Minister Chris Steel has said the significant disruption to traffic and parking in Canberra's city centre while work continues on the second stage of light rail will force people to change their commuting habits.
"We hope that through that process in providing people with opportunities to rethink their route and routine, that they will find better ways to commute into the city in the least disruptive way as possible and in the shortest period of time," Mr Steel told The Canberra Times earlier this month.
"Of course, we'll be promoting public transport through the period in the future and other forms of sustainable transport, but we know that many people will still need to commute by car.
"We do think that there is ample parking within the city footprint to accommodate those who may need to change where they're currently parking across the four car parks that are affected." MORE A.C.T.
POLITICS NEWS: The government has recommended motorists park at the Canberra Olympic Pool or Canberra Institute of Technology surface car parks, or at the National Convention Centre car park.
The closest car parks to 41 Marcus Clarke Street and the Edinburgh Avenue car park are the City West multi-storey car park, the 121 Marcus Clarke Street underground car park and the New Acton basement car park at 1 Phillip Law Street, the government said.
Alternative car parks to Acton waterfront surface car park are at Regatta Place and the New Acton basement car park.
<www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7919910/car-parks-to-close-in-civic-this-week-to-set-up-light-rail-construction-work-sites>
Three Sydney ferries taken out of service. Phoebe Loomes September 27 2022
Three Sydney ferries have been removed from service after two steering-related incidents. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)
Three second-generation Emerald-class Sydney ferries have been pulled from service on the harbour after two developed steering issues in as many days.
Premier Dominic Perrottet says occasional public transport issues are par for the course, with disruptions to ferry, bus and train fleets expected from time to time.
"There are always mechanical challenges with fleets," the premier told reporters on Tuesday.
"My expectation is that those ferries are back on the water as quickly as possible, and that there is minimal disruption to that service." An immediate review of the second generation Emerald-class fleet has been ordered by Transport Minister David Elliott, who told AAP Transport For NSW would provide him with a report within two weeks.
"The review will determine the cause of the issue and whether it is linked to the issue affecting the Clontarf on Sunday," Mr Elliott said.
The Office of Transport Safety Investigations and Australian Maritime Safety Authority have also been notified.
Such problems were rare on the second-generation Emerald ferries despite the two incidents, Managing Director of Sydney Ferries Loretta Lynch told ABC radio.
Three steering issues had been recorded since Emerald ferries took to the harbour in July last year.
The Fairlight encountered difficulties while carrying passengers from Manly to Circular Quay shortly before 5pm on Monday.
The ferry master regained control of the vessel within seconds and returned to the wharf to drop off the passengers, Ms Lynch said.
The incident happened after another ferry, the Clontarf also had a steering failure on Sunday.
A third ferry, the Balmoral, has also been taken off the harbour as a precaution, a Transport for NSW spokesperson told AAP.
"While assessments are being undertaken to determine the cause of the issue, the (second-generation Emerald-class) vessels remain out of service while tests can be conducted," the spokesperson said.
"Customers will experience a similar timetable to normal today with interim arrangements put in place to service the Manly to Circular Quay route." Labor Leader Chris Minns labelled the situation "a joke".
"This is solely because (of Mr) Perrottet and the Liberals' obsession with buying overseas-built ferries, trains and trams," he told AAP.
"It's cost thousands of jobs and billions of dollars and they can't even be used." Last month the government announced the return of the iconic Freshwater ferries for weekday operations, less than a year after the larger boats were removed from operations.
First launched in the 1980s, their recall came after the Emerald-class ferries were plagued with operational issues.
Cracks were found in hulls, windows shattered on the water and they struggled to operate safely in high swells or dock at very low tides.
Australian Associated Press"
<www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7919981/three-sydney-ferries-taken-out-of-service>
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Sent: Saturday 24 August 2024 at 11:40:49 am AEST
Subject: Thurs.7.9.22 daily digest, archive part 1, text
Roderick
Tues.27.9 fast down diesel through Aurrey Hills at 11.10; up at 13.34 : yellow west end, EV red & yellow P at east end.
"220828-ABC-SRL-a-foratn-ss.jpg"
"220927Tu-'CanberraTimes'-carpark, with atn
Tues.27.9.22 Metro Twitter
Flinders St: still with a lane closed for tunnel works.
Because of tunnel works, Degraves St subway at Flinders St is closed until 2024. No platform transfer via Degraves St subway. Passengers should use Elizabeth & Swanston St entry/exits. Campbell Arcade remains closed to 2024. Platform interchange via that subway was available until mid 2022.
Bell: No lift access to platforms until Oct 2022, while works continue around the station precinct. A shuttle bus will run from Bell to Preston and Thornbury.
Heading to Royal Melbourne Show? We’re running more trains to the showgrounds to get you there and back.
Victoria’s newest station will open in Keilor East in 2029 as part of Melbourne Airport Rail. The station will link more than 150,000 residents to Victoria’s rail network for the first time. The project is being delivered by Rail Projects Victoria: https://bit.ly/3BORBY1
- Will the airport west tram link up with it?
- Take 7 years to build a new station?
- Make sure it's accessible & caters to active transport over cars. Add charging points. It must be safe and gives incredible comfort from the elements. A meeting point, child-friendly & incorporate nature. Provide healthy food & drink.
- Hope it is accessible for the visually impaired and disabled members of the community
- Will the East Keilor station be a myki location ?
- Not exactly Keilor East, might as well call it Airport West
- No East Pakenham
PT operators are hosting a Try Before You Ride event – to help those with accessibility or access requirements feel confident using PT. Join them Thurs, 6 Oct, to learn more about train, tram, bus & even taxi accessibility services: https://bit.ly/3LSzmpl TravellersAid
19.12 Craigieburn line: Major delays (an equipment fault in the Coolaroo area). Trains may terminate/originate at Broadmeadows. Consider alternative transport for local trips.
- 19.41 clearing.
Buses replace trains Clifton Hill - Mernda from 20.10 until the last train (maintenance works).
Sun.28.8.22 New cost-benefit analysis questions the value of Victoria's Suburban Rail Loop
The cost of Victoria's Suburban Rail Loop could outweigh its benefit according to new analysis
Analysis by the Parliamentary Budget Office found the cost of the Suburban Rail Loop would be far greater than the government estimated. (ABC News: Danielle Bonica)
New analysis of Victoria's Suburban Rail Loop suggests the project's cost could outweigh its benefit as the state's opposition launches another attack on the government over the scheme.
Key points:
The Parliamentary Budget Office found the Suburban Rail Loop would have a net social cost
The Victorian opposition has repeated its pledge to shelve the project if elected
The government announced 10,000 nursing and midwifery students would have their courses paid for
Victoria's independent Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) has released more of its assessment of the project, after being asked to evaluate the rail loop by the Victorian opposition.
The PBO found the first two stages of the project had a benefit-cost ratio between 0.6 and 0.7, indicating it was likely to result in a net social cost.
The office released analysis earlier this month which found the overall cost of the Suburban Rail Loop would be far greater than originally estimated by the government.
The Victorian opposition said it would put the project on hold and divert funding towards rebuilding the state's health system.
Shadow Treasurer David Davis said the new analysis from the PBO validates the opposition's plan to shelve the project if it wins the state election in November.
"The net benefit to the community is under the net cost. It's a negative outcome project in that respect, a dud project, a project that doesn't deliver for Victorians in the way we would expect," he said.
"We've said that the project should be shelved. We've said that the money should be redirected into our crumbling healthcare system, a healthcare system that has seen the triple-0 service repeatedly fail Victorians and has seen inadequate capacity in our hospitals."
Victorian Transport Infrastructure Minister Jacinta Allan and Premier Daniel Andrews launched construction of the Suburban Rail Loop in June. (AAP: Diego Fedele)
Victoria's Transport Minister Jacinta Allan said the government was committed to the project.
"Matthew Guy and the Liberals are saying they will cut the Suburban Rail Loop, cut the jobs, cut the connections that come with delivering a project like this and are trying to create a false choice," she said.
"It isn't hospitals or train lines, you have to do both in government."
Premier Daniel Andrews said it was not a matter of choosing the rail project at the expense of the health system.
"Whatever a government doesn't build is left to the next government and it always costs more and it's always more difficult," he said.
"If you stop a project that is underway and critically important, well, that's not the way we operate."
www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-28/victoria-suburban-rail-loop-value-questioned/101380294
Perth family track down mystery teenager who performed life-saving CPR on train. Heather McNeill September 27, 2022. 10 comments
A Perth family has tracked down and thanked the mystery teenager who performed lifesaving CPR on their brother after he collapsed on a train on Thursday.
Gustavo Berna, 45, rushed to board his Thornlie line train in the city around 8.30am, running past Alanah Dunstan as he did so. The disability support worker, 18, followed Berna into the same carriage a few moments later.
Alanah Dunstan, right, saved Gustavo Berna’s life by giving him CPR after he collapsed on a Perth train. Berna’s family reached out to via Facebook to track down the person who helped him.
She had forgotten about the public holiday and was returning home after arriving to an empty office.
Minutes into the journey, Dunstan noticed Berna breathing heavily before he fell to the ground. She and others on the train rushed to put him into the recovery position before the group realised his pulse had stopped.
Dunstan, who was trained in senior first aid said she instructed someone to call triple-zero and another person to alert the train driver.
“Instantly I just went and started CPR on him and time went by so quickly,” she told Radio 6PR.
“We stopped at Burswood, the next one down, the train driver came out and saw me giving CPR in the middle of the aisle and he ran back into his carriage and all of a sudden we were heading at break-neck speed back to Perth where the ambulances met us there.”
Berna’s sister-in-law, Nicola Berna, said he suffered a heart attack, with doctors telling the family he may not wake up. However, on Saturday, he regained consciousness and was transferred out of the intensive care unit into the cardiac ward.
“It really is a testament to the CPR Alanah did ... it’s really nothing short of a miracle,” she said.
“Thank you isn’t enough for what you’ve done and our family’s so grateful.”
Nicola found Dunstan after posting on a Facebook community page, asking if anyone knew the person who saved her brother-in-law’s life on a Perth train. The message eventually got back to Dunstan, and the group plan to meet once Berna has recovered.
According to St John WA, around 225 people go into cardiac arrest in a public place each year. Most do not survive.
Dunstan said she hoped the positive story would encourage others to also get their first aid training.
https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/perth-family-track-down-mystery-teenager-who-performed-life-saving-cpr-on-train-20220927-p5blc0.html
https://www.theage.com.au/national/western-australia/perth-family-track-down-mystery-teenager-who-performed-life-saving-cpr-on-train-20220927-p5blc0.html
* That is inspiring - it sounds like the error in attending work that day was meant to be! thank Goodness! Sometimes the News is so depressing and then to find there is a person with such a caring personality is definitely inspiring - Thanks also to the others who do these deeds without being found.
Another wonderful young Western Australian. Our future is in good hands having people such as Ms Dunstan willing to step up when there is a need.
Brilliant. Well done, girl.
Someone saved my Dad by doing CPR on a peak-hour train in Richmond Victoria. It was a hot day and Dad was 86 at the time. Disastrous mix! He lived another 13 years. We could never find the young man and wished so much we could have thanked him. The pearl here was that the young lady also contacted the driver so he turned around and got to Perth asap
She wasn't even supposed to have been there as she hadn't remembered the public holiday. Wonderful outcome to what must have been thought to have been a waste of time.
A defib should be located in the train.
Defibs only help with certain heart rhythms. If the man had no pulse at all a defibrillator might not have been any help at all. Sounds like the CPR kept circulation and therefore oxygen to the brain and heart. That’s what saved him.
Vandals would totally destroy them but maybe the driver could have one!
Wow! Amazing job Alanah. I have experienced a love one having a heart attack in public myself. I was a complete basket case and all my first aid training flew out of my head. Fortunately a passer by stopped his car and jumped out to assist us. If it werent for him we would have lost our loved one.
Thank you to all the people who learn CPR and first aid, families of the loved one you save will be forever grateful.
I just wish I could have gotten the name of the man who helped us to thank him. He will always be the heroic stranger with angel wings to us!
Well done Alanah
Car parks to close in Civic at City Hill this week to set up light rail construction work sites. Jasper Lindell September 27 2022. 10 Comments
The ACT government will close some of its car parks at City Hill this week. Picture by Rohan Thomson
Motorists will lose access to about half of one of the ACT government's largest surface car parks in the city centre this week, as work begins to set up a construction compound for the complex work to raise London Circuit.
Work will soon begin to establish the compound at the City Hill car park, at the corner of London Circuit and Constitution Avenue, where 330 of the 650 car parks will be closed.
The government will also shut 165 spaces at its 41 Marcus Clarke Street car park on October 5, with car parks to be shut at the Acton Waterfront and the south-west corner of London Circuit in coming months.
The government will close or change access to 665 of the city centre's approximately 14,250 public parking spaces, with spots progressively removed as site compounds and work sites are set up.
The main site office for the raising London Circuit project will be at the City Hill car park.
The project is expected to take about two years to complete.
ACT Transport Minister Chris Steel has said the significant disruption to traffic and parking in Canberra's city centre while work continues on the second stage of light rail will force people to change their commuting habits.
"We hope that through that process in providing people with opportunities to rethink their route and routine, that they will find better ways to commute into the city in the least disruptive way as possible and in the shortest period of time," Mr Steel told The Canberra Times earlier this month.
"Of course, we'll be promoting public transport through the period in the future and other forms of sustainable transport, but we know that many people will still need to commute by car.
"We do think that there is ample parking within the city footprint to accommodate those who may need to change where they're currently parking across the four car parks that are affected." MORE A.C.T.
POLITICS NEWS: The government has recommended motorists park at the Canberra Olympic Pool or Canberra Institute of Technology surface car parks, or at the National Convention Centre car park.
The closest car parks to 41 Marcus Clarke Street and the Edinburgh Avenue car park are the City West multi-storey car park, the 121 Marcus Clarke Street underground car park and the New Acton basement car park at 1 Phillip Law Street, the government said.
Alternative car parks to Acton waterfront surface car park are at Regatta Place and the New Acton basement car park.
<www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7919910/car-parks-to-close-in-civic-this-week-to-set-up-light-rail-construction-work-sites>
Three Sydney ferries taken out of service. Phoebe Loomes September 27 2022
Three Sydney ferries have been removed from service after two steering-related incidents. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)
Three second-generation Emerald-class Sydney ferries have been pulled from service on the harbour after two developed steering issues in as many days.
Premier Dominic Perrottet says occasional public transport issues are par for the course, with disruptions to ferry, bus and train fleets expected from time to time.
"There are always mechanical challenges with fleets," the premier told reporters on Tuesday.
"My expectation is that those ferries are back on the water as quickly as possible, and that there is minimal disruption to that service." An immediate review of the second generation Emerald-class fleet has been ordered by Transport Minister David Elliott, who told AAP Transport For NSW would provide him with a report within two weeks.
"The review will determine the cause of the issue and whether it is linked to the issue affecting the Clontarf on Sunday," Mr Elliott said.
The Office of Transport Safety Investigations and Australian Maritime Safety Authority have also been notified.
Such problems were rare on the second-generation Emerald ferries despite the two incidents, Managing Director of Sydney Ferries Loretta Lynch told ABC radio.
Three steering issues had been recorded since Emerald ferries took to the harbour in July last year.
The Fairlight encountered difficulties while carrying passengers from Manly to Circular Quay shortly before 5pm on Monday.
The ferry master regained control of the vessel within seconds and returned to the wharf to drop off the passengers, Ms Lynch said.
The incident happened after another ferry, the Clontarf also had a steering failure on Sunday.
A third ferry, the Balmoral, has also been taken off the harbour as a precaution, a Transport for NSW spokesperson told AAP.
"While assessments are being undertaken to determine the cause of the issue, the (second-generation Emerald-class) vessels remain out of service while tests can be conducted," the spokesperson said.
"Customers will experience a similar timetable to normal today with interim arrangements put in place to service the Manly to Circular Quay route." Labor Leader Chris Minns labelled the situation "a joke".
"This is solely because (of Mr) Perrottet and the Liberals' obsession with buying overseas-built ferries, trains and trams," he told AAP.
"It's cost thousands of jobs and billions of dollars and they can't even be used." Last month the government announced the return of the iconic Freshwater ferries for weekday operations, less than a year after the larger boats were removed from operations.
First launched in the 1980s, their recall came after the Emerald-class ferries were plagued with operational issues.
Cracks were found in hulls, windows shattered on the water and they struggled to operate safely in high swells or dock at very low tides.
Australian Associated Press"
<www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7919981/three-sydney-ferries-taken-out-of-service>
