new mandurah train line

we’ve caught the train up to perth a few times now, and i gotta say i love the new train!  a quick trip up to perth and back just could not be any easier now.  hop on at warnbro station (3 mins from where we live), and get out at murray street mall – how cool is that?!i remember a few years ago having an argument with the local state liberal party dude down here in rockingham who went off his face at me (i was astounded) telling me that the plan to run a train up the freeway was idiotic and i was stupid for thinking that was a good idea (he actually swore at me during the phone conversation, until i reminded him who he was talking to – glad he wasn’t in front of me at the time or i might have done something we both regretted…).  i told him he was dim if he thought i would EVER catch a train to kenwick so that i could then catch a train to the city, when our northern brethren just hop on a train that takes them straight to the city.i think of that conversation every time i see the car park at the new station full, the trains full and people talking about the coolness of the new infrastructure, and it makes me realize that there’s a reason why the libs are out of power in WA and unlikely to find their way back in a hurry.  doh!i think the train up the freeway is cool, and i’ve now used it 4 times more than i would have if it was the absolutely goofball idea of running it to kenwick.