Re: needle stick injuries on suburban trains [Vic]

[Sam Eades <eadess@yahoo.com>]

Daniel Bowen wrote:

> "Andrew Box" <boxy@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
> Kzym4.1045$k6.1851@news-server.bigpond.net.au">news:Kzym4.1045$k6.1851@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > I just heard a couple of days ago about someone getting a needle stick
> > injury on a Bayside train to Dandenong, however this is not the first time
> > it has been in the media.  Channel 10 also had a special report on this
> > several mths back and it seems that the train compaines have done nothing
> to
> > solve this problem.  They say that it is the age and design of the trains
> > that are the problem, but are they not meant to be refubishing the Comeng
> > and buying new trains?
> >
> > The first refubished Comeng trains aree meant to be on Hillisde by
> > September, but thats still 7mths away, and the new trains in 2002.   Its
> > just to long to wait. I noticed that nothing was done to fix the problem
> > when the hitachi trains where refubished not that long ago.
>
> How would refurbishment help, exactly? The article in The Age implied they
> were syringes deliberately left between the cushions.

I suppose the only way would be to eliminate the cushions, have a setup like the
4D where it is all one cushion, so there are no nasty surprises, as there are no
cracks...