Thousands of people have signed the petition, and Orange Rail Action Group is confident it will get the 10,000 names needed in the next few days to have NSW Parliament debate the merits of the service.

The rail group has campaigned tirelessly for years to get better rail transport and wants the Bathurst Bullet to come on to Orange and start its morning trip to Sydney from here.

It's now taken back to Lithgow for the night and then returned to Bathurst for its early-morning trip to Sydney.

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But there's still no good news in sight because of the complicated arrangements surrounding the bullet with Sydney Trains owning it, NSW TrainLink supplying the crew and the John Holland Group leasing the tracks and the infrastructure in Orange. Trade unions are also involved.

On top of that TrainLink says the Bullet has to go back to Lithgow to be cleaned and because there's no facilities to park it at Bathurst where it would block passing goods trains.

Orange has a roofed rail siding that could house the Bullet and could easily be made secure so parking it here overnight wouldn't be a problem. It's worth noting the railway first reached Orange in 1877 but now 142 years later we have only one train a day and it's on its last legs.

We hope something can be sorted soon.

THERE'S lots of easy money the State government can pick up in Orange if highway patrol cops sat at roundabouts and booked every driver going straight ahead who failed to signal left when exiting.

A quick check showed that in one minute at the roundabout at the intersection of Anson and Kite streets, six of the 11 cars going straight ahead failed to click on their blinkers.

The fine is $187 and two demerit points so had a copper been there, he could have collected $1,122 for 60 seconds' work. That's an excellent return, so think what could be reaped in a day.

If the same ratio was repeated in an hour, that's $67,320 in fines. Multiply that by eight hours and you get $538,560. That's just at one roundabout and we've got 30 or more so the takings would be like winning lotto several times over.

Highway patrol police could earn their fines quotas in a few minutes without leaving Orange, saving hundreds of litres of fuel not having to travel up and down roads looking for customers.

And it's about time some of these lazy drivers on roundabouts were booked so other motorists don't have to stop to see which way oncoming cars are going to go.

TALKING of drivers ... beware of Mexicans in four-wheel-drives, or in cars as well for that matter.

The other day a car with Victorian number plates heading south in Woodward Street changed lanes from the left across to the right without signalling and then, staying in the right lane, went on to the roundabout and did a left turn into Summer Street, cutting off other traffic.

It's one of Mexico's weird traffic rules that drivers make turns from the opposite lane but that doesn't work here so when you see a vehicle with a Victorian plate, give it a wide berth.