Re: Oh what fun it is too ride...

["Iconoclast says ..." <healthlink.nojunk@ultra.net.au>]

What the railways have never understood is that the purpose of the system is
to provide useful transport for people and goods. Not to make up different
daily excuses, not to say "dunno, mate" to every reasonable question, and
not to be some kind of anti-unemployment sponge.

So many rail workers can't see that if they met the "useful transport"
criteria more often, more people would use the system, more money would be
invested in the system, and their jobs would be very secure.

It's no use telling the public what to realise. The public makes its choices
how it travels, and choices at the ballot box, based on what it experiences.

Iconoclast.

Neil D B
> > Are the trains in Sydney ever going to get there act together?
> > Yesterday I was siiting outside the sheds near Asquith for 30mins
> > inside a train that had only small windows. I felt sorry for a
> pregnant
> > lady who had to sit in this while her husband was ringing her on the
> > mobile every 5 minutes.
> > The guard stated it was a track failure. What sort was it? There were
> > no work crews fixing any section of track. Anyhow people were
> > commenting how bad the service is getting.
> > It only got better this morning. Who ever was driving the 7.20am train
> > from Berowra down the North Shore was obviously on something. He came
> > into Mt Colah the slowest I have seen any train. And this was a
> > Tangara. We then took off for Asquith. Asquith sailed by with the
> > driver slamming on the brakes then reversing back to Asquith.Some of
> > the People, who were on yesterdays train, were on this one a started
> > laughing and shaking heads. Every station he pulled in far too slow,
> > tried to stop at artarmon and wollstonecraft etc when he wasn't meant
> > to. Tried to get around the tight turns past St leonards at a far
> > greater speed than supposed to. To top it all off the airconditioning
> > stopped for 15mins. It was getting hard to breathe and people were
> > getting stressed. Especially the older passengers.
> > When will this madness end?
> > I'll just have to wait until this afternoon.
> >

>  I am not trying to make up excuses here for the driver, but Im just
> trying to make you realise some possibilities. Whose to say that the
> driver in question, it wasnt his first day out by himself after passing
> through the driving school? I know most drivers on their first few
> days, weeks and maybe even months are very caucious when coming into
> platforms etc. His driving ability may not be perfect, but by god, you
> cannot tell me that everyone who has passed their car drivers licence
> test, are the best drivers in the world. Everyone makes mistakes, and I
> wish people would stop and think sometimes about the surrounding
> circumstances, instead of instantly jumping on the very boring
> bandwagon by saying Sydney`s trains are getting worse.
>  On the other hand, the driver may have been driving for a long time
> and just has no sense, he may be on drugs etc, who knows. It takes all
> kinds of people to make up this world, and the sooner the public
> realise this, the better.
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