Re: A Stunning example of the inbalance of the Rail Safety Act 1993 (NSW)

["Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com>]

Some gutless wonder hiding behind
JJJim <jjjim@bigpond.com> wrote in message 3ACC37D7.4DCA4013@bigpond.com">news:3ACC37D7.4DCA4013@bigpond.com...

Reams of its puerile silly stuff any 3 year old
could leave for dead flushed where it belongs.

> Id be whinging too, its not good enough.

No one is holding a gun to your head and
forcing you to bludge off that subsidy, boy.

> As for weekly tickets,  the discount for
> buying weeklies should have no downsides,

Wota silly little wanker. Then there's the real world.

> Rod Speed wrote
>> Ivan Smith <ivsmith11@hotmail.nospam.com> wrote

> > > I've been done and pleaded guilty for "Fare Evasion"
> >
> > And so you should. You showed up with far too little time before
> > the train left to be sure you could get a new weekly ticket. You
> > should have bought the new one on the last trip with the old one.
> >
> > > due to SRA staff stuff ups, insufficient staffing levels etc,,,
> >
> > Due to your stuffup, not theirs.
> >
> > > In the course of defending this charge I had
> > > a chance to read the Act from start to end.
> >
> > I gave you the url to read it online.
> >
> > > One thing I noticed is that the Event Majeure and
> > > Double Jeopardy sections are unfair to consumers:
> >
> > Bullshit.
> >
> > > Last evening the 17:26 out of Jannali
> > > to Cronulla turned up on time at Jannali.
> >
> > > Without fair warning
> >
> > They cant give a warning when they dont have the info.
> >
> > > we were informed first by the guard that there had
> > > been a signal failure and the train would remain at
> > > Sutherland. Length of the delay unknown. Fair enough.
> >
> > > Then the station announcement comes on and states that this train
> > > is terminating here. The guard gets on and says the same thing.
> >
> > > I live at Cronulla which is miles away from Sutherland. So
> > > we all stood on the platform like stunned mullets (as usual)
> > > with no information, in the cold and dark, and after about
> > > 10 minutes of this, I and several others started to make for
> > > the exits, after realising the situation had deteriorated so badly
> > > in the communication up and down the line, that Sutherland
> > > Station had no idea, as usual, leaving us all pissed off and angry.
> >
> > > What really pissed me off about this was that I had paid
> > > for me weekly at the start of the week, and I couldn't get
> > > the service I had recently been unfairly fined for.
> >
> > Poor widdle diddums. You get a substantial reduction with a
> > weekly ticket and thats one of the downsides with them, stupid.
> >
> > > I walked from Sutherland to Miranda ($15 cab, $27 to Cronulla),
> > > as there were no Taxis, busses or offers from the SRA of
> > > alternate transport or reimbursement of alternate fare costs.
> >
> > Thats life. The SRA is fresh out of magic wands to wave.
> >
> > > All I could think of "where's my refund on my ticket, for a trip you
> > > would gladly fine me for, $100, if I didn't have a valid ticket to travel?"
> >
> > More fool you.
> >
> > > - Failure to deliver a service, which is completely
> > > covered in the SRA's favour, in the Act.
> >
> > Because thats the only possible way to run a railway, stupid.
> >
> > We aint interested in paying an even bigger subsidy to
> > the railways so the likes of you get what you demand.
> >
> > You dont like the deal ? Dont use the railway. Its as basic as that.
> >
> > > So my point is that the Rail Safety Act 1993 is stacked.
> > > It's stacked against the commuters and for the SRA.
> >
> > You dont like the deal ? Dont use the railway. Its as basic as that.
> >
> > > The clauses which pertain to last nights (all too common)
> > > situation are clearly letting the SRA off the hook
> > > with their obligation to service they must provide.
> >
> > Because thats the only viable way to run a railway, stupid.
> >
> > > What is the mechanism for a fare refund claim??
> >
> > Ask them, stupid.
> >
> > > If they can fine me for an innocent circumstantial
> > > incident according to their legislation, then there
> > > must be a mechanism for us to claim back off them.
> >
> > Wrong.
> >
> > > There isn't though because the Rail Safety Act 1993
> > > is stacked against commuters in the most part.
> >
> > Complete pack of lies.
>