Re: Time to bring back the tram conductors

[neumannc <neumannc@ozemail.com.au>]

David E. Lindstrom wrote:
> 
> The tram ride nightmare
> 
> By MANIKA NAIDOO
> Thursday 13 July 2000
> The article starts out:
> "It was meant to be the perfect family outing.
> And it was, until Mary Beech, and her two children Izzy, 10, and Jack, 12,
> stepped on to a W-class tram on Collins Street to face a man, seemingly
> drug-crazed, yelling: "I'm going to slit your throat. I'm going to kill your
> children."
> 
> http://www.theage.com.au/news/20000713/A3073-2000Jul12.html
> 
> As Chris said in another post; "It's all gone downhill since they removed
> the conductors."


Given that three ticket inspectors with radios on the tram did nothing
do you seriously think that a conductor would have made any difference?

Chris