Re: [Syd] Why do trains sound horn when leaving platform?

[taliesin@chariot.net.au (Taliesin Walker)]

On 7 Feb 2001 22:52:37 +1100, Paul Dwerryhouse
<paul+usenet@dwerryhouse.com.au> wrote:

>"Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> writes:
>
>>"Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au> wrote in message
>>01c090d4$bcd7ce20$758a17d2@rodsmith">news:01c090d4$bcd7ce20$758a17d2@rodsmith...
>>| It isn't done in Europe: the train just goes.
>
>>He doesn't live in Europe. In Sydney we have many idiot passengers. They
>>can't tell when the doors are closing without the guard telling them. They
>>can't tell when there's a gap between the platform and the train without
>>painted notices on the platform. They can't tell when the trains moving
>>without the Driver blowing the whistle.
>
>Then they are idiots and they should die.
>
>That's the biggest problem with Australia - there's so many rules and
>regulations protecting people from themselves that we're creating a society
>of morons.
If a person is killed, by his/her own stupidity or not, it is tragedy.
And besides which it will hold up the train in question.

Tali