Re: Drugs on trains

["James C" <noemail@emailsux.com>]

<PTUA secretary Vaughan Williams >

Is this the same person that visit this forum regularly?

Cheers
James



Michael Walker <wk@cgsc.vic.edu.au> wrote in message
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> http://www.theage.com.au/news/20000712/A1696-2000Jul11.html
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> Talks about the drug problem on public transport. It notes the Epping
> line (and presumably the Hurstbridge line) through Collingwood, the
> Dandenong line through Springvale, the 86 tram through Smith Street and
> overdoses on country trains as being the worst areas.
>
> I'm not sure one of the solutions suggested, returning guards to
> trains, is going to make any difference though. As suggested in other
> threads, and in the past when it comes up, railway guards were there to
> guard the train in a safeworking sense. Every time it was suggested
> guards roam the trains in Melbourne, all hell broke loose. I think it
> happened for a short time and then they stopped doing it (safety
> reasons?). Then the government got rid of them. If all the guard is
> going to do is ride in their box up the end, read the paper and ding
> the bell twice and shut the doors, I doubt that trains will be any more
> safe and secure than they are now without them. Just my 2c worth!
>
> Conductors on the other hand I can see the point of from a public
> safety point of view.
>
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