Sydney New Year’s Eve fireworks could be cancelled due to train strike, police commissioner says

Karen Webb warns that NSW force can't risk 250,000 people being trapped in the city' with no way home

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The New South Wales police commissioner, Karen Webb, says she has grave concerns" about the safety of Sydney's famous New Year's Eve fireworks proceeding during a train strike - and she could recommend they be cancelled.

Leaving the city is based on access to transport, including trains, and, if trains aren't available, and people can't leave the city, I have very large concerns of the risk that will create to the public, because families won't be able to get home and they'll be trapped in the city [with] no way out," the commissioner told reporters on Friday.

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