Re: [NSW] Cityrail Millennium Train

["Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au>]

Tezza <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Chris Downs"
> | David Johnson
> | > Marvin The Martian wrote:
> | >
> | > > This is just a rumour so I don't know how true it is, the guards door
> | closes at 35km/h so a guard will not be able to watch his train in or out.
> I hope
> | > > it isn't true
> | >
> | > I heard it was 55 km/h.  Personally, I think this is extremely
> dangerous, and
> | > the union should black-ban these trains whilever this "feature" is
> active.
>
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> | I wonder how the risk compares with guards falling out of trains or being
> | otherwise injured etc. when standing in their doorways at speed versus
> this
> | new measure?
>
> Knee-jerk safeworking requirements to look after morons doesn't take the
> guards safety into account.

I was hoping for a substantive answer, not a knee-jerk response.  Is this a
justifiable change on the basis of reduced risk to guards (arrived at as a
result of analysis)?

Chris

PS 12 consecutive posts by the one person - should that invoke pride or shame?