Re: NSW train drivers still in dark over track workers

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

<glillic@msn.com.au> wrote in message
7LiR5.53522$e5.65089@newsfeeds.bigpond.com">news:7LiR5.53522$e5.65089@newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> It is fairly clear to me
>
> If the railways were to cease running trains altogether, this would overcome
> all possibility of injury to fettlers, there would be no need to issue
> timetables, no need to compensate the Airport station owners, etc.......
>
> Lets to real here. How many road maintenance workers are killed and injured
> by lack of regard to safety rules in that industry?

They get more protection than fettlers.


> You can not drive a car without regard to the possibility of
> another car or a pedestrian being in the wrong place. Why should train
> driving be any different.


Trains can't stop on a dime.