Re: Red Light Runners

["The Railway Rasputin II." <bob@fastlink.com.au>]

Once again the Tele is trying to stir up trouble.
Just try waiting one min and triping past a home signal and see what
happens!
Poor excuse of a news paper.
I'm willing to bet that they have distorted the figures as well.

rgds

Lourie Smit wrote:
> 
> Following is an extract from an article in today's Daily Telegraph on the
> above subject:
> " The number of train drivers (in NSW) running red signals has nearly
> doubled during the past five years, new figures show.
> There were 97 trains across the state's rail network last year that passed
> "signals at stop" without following proper procedures, up from 49 notified
> incidents in 1995.
> Under safe working procedures, a train may proceed through a red signal
> after a minute - provided it proceeds slowly and contacts the nearest signal
> box.
> In 1995 49 trains ignored stop signs, 67 in 1996, 61 in 1997, 73 in 1998 and
> 97 last year.
> the figures were released in response to a request for rail incident
> statistics from the State Opposition."