Re: Hehe It got better!!

[Sam Eades <eadess@yahoo.com>]

Neil D B wrote:

I work for Hillside Trains in Melbourne (and proud of it) and I certainly
hope that you are joking about all of this. If not, it's sad, self centred,
racist people like you who are killing the railway industry in this
country.

>  Whinge whinge whinge. Now you know why cityrail staff might not be as
> friendly as an Ansett flight attendant. The whinging bloody passengers
> you have to put up with all day long. CityRail is a big system with
> utilising lots of technology, trying to run trains everywhere with no
> more than about a 10 minute gap.

In Melbourne, on the Epping line in the morning we have as little as 3
minute headways on the down after the peak. These services rarely run more
than 3 mins late.
On the Box Hill line during peak hr there are trains in 1 direction on
average about every 1.5 to 3 minutes over 2 lines.


>  Now let me ask you a question. Would you prefer to only have 1 train
> an hour to cut down on wear and tear on the track and compononents, but
> being incredibly reliable, or because of the publics whinging, have a
> train every 10 minutes, and only having a few LITTLE problems? I know
> what Id prefer. The public want trains every few minutes, but they
> cannot put up with a tiny bit of inconvenience as a result of the
> frequent service.

I wouldn't call daily derailments, services cancelled more often than
running and extreme late running little problems at all, in fact, I would
call them the second most major problem that a railway system could have
(the most major being regular fatalities which Sydney doesn't seem to
have). It is a sign that things need a massive shakeup, as the system is
falling apart.
What is the point of running a frequent service if it doesn't run?

>  Then once things a running smooth, and on time all day, the public
> decide they wanna whinge about the fact that S sets and other trains
> may not have air conditioning. Well diddums, thankfully for you,youre
> only on that train for really no longer than 1 1/2 hours. Drivers and
> guards have to put up with it for 8 hours a day sometimes.

Diddums to you, you poor thing, getting paid in the heat while the public
pay to sit in the heat (with no way of opening a door) while the train is
delayed between stations!

>
> As for saying that rail employees are a bunch of incompetents who
> cannot do their job, than why dont you piss off back to your car, pay
> over $10,000 a year to keep it on the road, put up with traffic, shit
> drivers, shit roads, longer commuting times, and get yourself killed by
> a shitty asian driver whos been taught to drive by someone of their own
> race and in their own language, that they cannot read a stop sign and
> they plough straight through you, and then you tell me just how shit
> the trains are.

What does the language someone speaks, how they look or where they come
from influence the way someone drives. I would say that stupidity in
driving is pretty widespread throughout the races. These comments are
racist, and just what you would expect to hear from the most devoted One
Nation Fan!

>  Nearly every single morning, the trains deliver over a million
> passengers safely to work, without incidents.

So you don't call derailments (no matter how minor), or late running
incidents?

>  And another thing, if you wanna see just how efficient sydneys trains
> really are, you just have to look at what happened during those 2 train
> strikes late last year. Chaos everywhere.

Yes, because a lot of people rely on your (lack of) service as it has
always been there. If you started Cityrail up as a new company now, how
many people do you think would use it?

> And one last thing, stop your whinging, put up with it, and get over
> it. Us employees are not sitting in our mealrooms, working out ways to
> try and fuck the public up at every chance we get, no matter what your
> opinions are. Just remember, were trying to get home as well.

Put up with it and get over it?? Why should people put up with shoddy
service?? I think that if this continues, people will vote with their feet
(cars/buses/ferries/taxis) and you will find that you have no customers
left to carry. But then again I suppose that doesn't matter with your
Government railway...

Sam Eades