Re: Newspaper "beat ups" - and its not the Terrorgraph!! (was:News about fire on train near Linden Blue Mountains)

["Arthur Marsh" <mars0177@flinders.edu.au>]

I eventually found the letter at:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/0007/27/text/letters.html

"David Bennetts" <davibenn@pcug.org.au> wrote in message
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> > Bulls Creek."
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> > Maybe Chris could post his account of the accident to them and see what
> they
> > say then...
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> > Tony.
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> Just what he did - the Herald published his letter this morning - see
> http://www.smh.com.au  - good work Chris.  Although an obvious media
beatup
> occurred on this occasion, the incident demonstrates that CityRail's
> practice of locking people into trains with no means of emergency egress
is
> fundamentally flawed. The driver and guard did a great job, but they only
> had about 80 souls on board.  What if the train had 1000 pax on board?
How
> long would it have taken to get them through the train and get them out of
> the guard's door. No doubt it would have been too long for some - the
toxic
> smoke would have done its job.  It doesn't happen on overseas trains, nor
> those closer to home eg Brisbane has emergency door releases.  That's why
> buildings have fire escapes, buses have pop-out windows, planes have
> emergency exits and life rafts.  But not CityRail trains.
>
> Regards
> David Bennetts
> Canberra
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