Interesting project created by, presumably, another frustrated Sydney commuter…
This guy has managed to scrape all the traffic announcements from the RTA website and piped them into a twitter feed here:
Twitter Sydney Traffic
It’s a great example of how the tech community responds a million times quicker than the authorities.
What government fails to realise is that if they could publish much more of their public data in easily consumable formats (RSS, XML, REST, SOAP etc…) then I suspect you would see many of the city’s information problems being solved by the community. Not only that but it would happen much faster than if a huge government budget was brough to bear on the same task.
The scary thing is the the RTA are probably the most I.T. literate of government departments in NSW, and their Web 2.0 presence is almost non-existant.
Sydney Transport Blog 
If various public services made their information, public, we’d be able to have nifty projects like Every Block; http://www.everyblock.com/
Keep up the posts, your style of writing is quite humorous.
Did you see this article:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/digital-life/mobiles–handhelds/articles/cityrail-puts-brakes-on-iphone-app/2009/03/05/1235842537210.html
Cityrail won’t let anyone write an iPhone app to display timetables. It’s like they want the sydney train system to be bad; they won’t let anyone help them improve it!
Just spotted it this morning. I have written a rant/comment on the the gizmodo article!