Re: NSW train drivers still in dark over track workers

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

"Maurie Daly" <mauried@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
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> Isnt the basic problem here one of "who is responsible for overall
> safety of railway operations.
> When there are discreet and differant authorities running differant
> bits of the network the above responsibility becomes blurry.
> Obviously,if workers are working on the track,then they are there
> because the owner of the track requires them to be there.
> It would therefore seem to me that the track owner is responsibile for
> their safety,not the rail operators.
> As to how such safety should be implemented ,surely this is up to the
> mob who administer rail safety in NSW, the DOT.
> Whats the Rail Safety Act for if it doesnt cover things like this.


Cost cutting got in the way.