Re: [NSW]Getting rid of guards

[Marvin The Martian <"choochoo"@spin.net.au (nospam)>]

I know guards will go eventully as will drivers, on the page
http://www.railwayage.com/may99/21stcentury , it claims
'NYC Transit, one of the oldest rapid transit systems in the U.S. with nearly
800 route-miles controlled by traditional automatic block signals, should
within the next 20 years evolve into one of the most modern. Driverless
operation? As the Paris Metro's new Meteor Line is demonstrating, the
technology to make it happen is available'

 The public would not stand for a train with no staff on it so I think you
will find security guards patrolling the train or someone monitiring cameras
in each car.

To clarify another point, I don't hate drivers as a whole. I find most
drivers good at their job and nice people, in fact I think I hate more guards
than drivers as alot of guards are useless pieces of shit but there are some
good guards out there too.
Tell wrote:

> Can not answer for NSW Cityrail, except to say, guards
> were eliminated from most other rail systems, in some
> cases here in Australia, many years ago.!
>
> Then again thousands of other rail employees were
> "allowed to go" as well.!
>
> Sign of the times I guess.
>
> ....Tell
>
> >Marvin The Martian <"choochoo"@(nospam)spin.net.au> wrote:
>
> > It seems to me that most people in this group hate guards well guards
> > will be here for a wjile yet, if they could have got rid of guards they
> > will have by now in NSW. They have trialled cameras, mirrors etc but
> > with the amount of passengers and curved platforms it is not possible,
> > not to mention some passengers who are brain dead. Another reason is
> > they don't trust drivers by themselves, if they did they would not be
> > trailling dataloggers for all Cityrail trains, they record everything
> > the drriver does while he is on the train. Complain all you like but
> > guards are here and will be for a while yet. There has been rumours of
> > the guards demise for at least 20 years now and we are still here.