Re: Tram cameras to boost security

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

> Guards on trains will not make any difference.  All they used to do was
sit
> in their box in the middle or end of the train and open and close doors,
> with all trains now having DOO this would be an extremely expensive
> non-solution.  A better idea would be to have conductors on trains just
like
> V/Line do, who roam the train.  I catch V/Line and Hillside trains
everyday
> to get to uni, countless times the Hillside has been cancelled due to
> vandalism, NEVER has the V/Line been cancelled for the same reason,
actually
> in the 2 yrs of going to uni a V/line has never been cancelled.
Strange enough ....last time it was V/line recieved fine and Hillside
recieved bonus. I can only suggest Hillside was a bad performer before the
pirvatisation, I used to catch Hurstbridge trains quite often(3 years ago)
cancellation was quite common back then,  and after the privatisation it
took CGEA little effort to make up the lost.


> Also I had a conversation with a Hillside person about the state of their
> trains, in this conversation he told me that the first refurbished Comeng
> trains sound be out in the next couple of weeks.
Yes,

1st train due to arrive Epping from Ballarat around 1030 tomorrow

Cheers
James

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>
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