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

[keithm@commslab.gov.au (Dave Malcolm)]

In article <948442031.910491@terra.ultra.net.au> "Iconoclast says ..." <healthlink.nojunk@ultra.net.au> writes:
>From: "Iconoclast says ..." <healthlink.nojunk@ultra.net.au>
>Subject: Re: Oh what fun it is too ride...
>Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 18:06:39 +1000

>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.

Didn't you realise. Passengers get in the way of running a good rail system.

Dave Malcolm

>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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