RAIL WI-FI FAIL
QUEENSLAND Rail’s main job is to make sure the trains run on time, which it manages occasionally even with a few decades practice.
But it really needs to make the move into the modern world and I’m not talking about high speed rail and magnets. Just get its Wi-Fi situation sorted.
This crappy service makes working on the train on a laptop or iPad almost impossible. But worse, it regularly freezes between Beerwah and Beerburrum and then times out and says I’ve reach my data limit.
Last week I’d achieved nothing beyond logging in to the Wi-Fi.
Other times, I can barely send an email. There’s no HD movies or Facebook reels. Just a joke.
I know I could use my own phone, but it’s the principal that if you offer a service, make it work. Pull your socks up QR.
VAPER
Have I missed something about vaping?
I genuinely thought it had been banned across the state, yet new laws are now being introduced to yet again crack down on the industry. I admit I always wondered why there were so many vaping stores operating if authorities had come down like a tonne of bricks.
Back to trains – I’ve been sitting near to local students, in uniform no less, who think nothing of vaping away on their way to a day of study.
So cool, dudes. Lucky I’m not a dibber dobber.
BUDGET
It’s not breaking news to say that last week’s budget is one big pitch for the next state election.
Big spending sweeteners on power bills and public transport.
Sure the region is getting a $5.5 billion new train set but there wasn’t much else in it. Just a bunch of funding that had already been announced.