Re: [NSW] - SMH reporting on Cityrail 15/9/2000

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

"Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com> wrote in message news:1UBw5.51659
> "David Burns" <dpburns@veal.optushome.com.au> wrote in message
> > From today's Herald:
> > By ROBERT WAINWRIGHT, ABAN CONTRACTOR and BERNARD LAGAN
> >    A CityRail driver was stood down for driving past a red signal at
> > Olympic Park.

> >    Though the Olympic Park incident was not regarded as especially
> > serious,
>
> By whom?

You'd have to ask the Herald.


> A SPAD is a SPAD,

I disagree. If a train had passed the signal at the end of the Olympic
platform by a few feet, that is not serious. In fact most SPADS are not
serious.

> on whose opinion was it regarded as not
> especially serious?

You'd have to ask the reporter that.