Nowhere else in the world will you find double decker carriages used on any system involving a major underground rail network.

The world’s biggest networks, including London and the New York underground, all have single decker trains.

The reason is that you can pick-up and set down passengers many times quicker from a single deck carriage than a double deck one.

A commuter in the middle of a crowded train literally has to fight their way on and off a double deck train at every single stop.

Our elderly citizens dread having to travel on a train into the city.

My train driver friend on Platform 17 in Sydney, tells me that never a day goes by when rail staff don't have to rescue slow or elderly passengers from overcrowded trains.

You need a license to trap a lobster, you can trap a human for nothing.

Rail Management should try listening to guards an drivers.

Dave Cox, Corrimal

Richard Luigi Di Natale is a first generation Australian and the son of Italian immigrants who clearly thought Australia was a “good” country to raise and educate any child they might produce.  

If they didn’t why didn’t they go somewhere else to give birth to, and establish the life of their little Richard?

As far as I am concerned Di Natale highlights one of the major downsides of Australia’s insane love affair with the creation of a multicultural state.

He spits in the face of those who were forced to come to this land around 230 years ago with no hope of ever returning to their native country.

Instead, being forced to settle here and build the foundations for the development of a nation – a nation whose citizens have every right to feel proud to claim as their own.

Instead, feeling no affinity to Australia and the men and women who made sacrifices in wartime and peace to get the country to where it is today, he insists those who have descended from the earlier settlers are nothing more than vile invaders and have no right to celebrate a day of nationhood on a day of their own choosing.

His claims and push to denigrate our 26 January, Australia Day celebration are not even supported by too many First Australians: a fact he knows full well.

Yet he believes he is important enough or has some right to start a push to completely reinvent Australia and its history to his liking.

Di Natale, unlike the first white settlers of this country, has a choice to back to the country of his heritage if he doesn’t like this county’s history and its celebrations.

However, we all know he would never consider leaving this great country – not even for a nanosecond.

Richard Burnett, Wollongong

’SEVERE HEATWAVE’ CONDITIONS HEADED FOR THE ILLAWARRA

 Awesome! The hotter the better.

_ Natalie

Noooo I've Loved the cool windy days. 

_ Jade

Too bad about the great whites hanging around now!

_ Ryan

Nooo looks like I'll have to kick the ball over the neighbors fence when he's not home and fall into his pool to get it out.

_ Gloria

MAN RUNS FROM POLICE, GETS STUCK ON ROOF IN CORRIMAL

I drove past this last night but had no idea what was happening.

_ Bec

So who shells out all the rescue costs hope he is charged.

_ Janet