Re: [v] Flinders St station stuff-ups - AGAIN

["James C" <jamesccj@optusnet.com.au>]

<<<MERTOL>>>> is the one govern all the signals, platform entering and
annoucements


.....And those bloody screen you describe was working when I got there to
(Flinder street) catch 4:32pm service to Alanmein.


I don't know what's your problem with Hillside trains, Hillside is better
then Met or PTC ever been, if you don't like Hillside then try driving to
work every morning.

Cheers
James





Mick Stock <mzs@nospam.bigpond.com> wrote in message > 14:59 Lilydale was
announced as "departing plat. 4", and passengers were
> only given a one minute warning of this fact.  Considering the mess that
> plat 2/3 is in at the moment, moving everyone from 2/3 across to 4 is a
> major pain the the a..., so why did they do it?
>
> And why the hell can't they stop changing what platform a train is going
> to leave from?  As a typical example (and one which happens almost every
> day on some services):
Not true, I have been commuting for the last few weeks and nothing like that
happened.



> One minute, the screens show that a train going to Lilydale will leave
> from plat 2, then a few mins later plat 3, then back to 2. In the
> meantime, the train arriving on plat 3 ends up being the Lilydale... Or
> worse still, the train arriving on plat 4 will be the one!  In the
> meantime, the screens on plat 2/3 will often be turned off!  With the
> so-called construction works, which restrict access for a large part of
> platforms 2/3, further delays are triggered while passengers attempt to
> move from one side to the other with the limited access caused by the
> construction works.
>
> It is also quite common for a train to be delayed, because another train
> which is due to leave AFTER the scheduled earlier train was given access
> to the platforms first (which is also what happen this afternoon)!
> This is sloppy running, and can not be justified.  At no time was there
> any indication of signal problems, as trains were using all platforms
> concerned (and switching tracks quite normally).
>
> And when are they going to FIX THOSE USELESS BLOODY
> SCREENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!