Re: [NSW] Cityrail Millennium Train

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

"Chris Downs" <
| Tezza
| > "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.
| >
| >
| > | 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.

Again you don't know what you're talking about. Because morons got caught in
doors, managements knee-jerk reaction was to change safeworking to say the
guard had to risk his safety watching for morons.



|  Is this a justifiable change on the basis of reduced risk to guards
(arrived at as a
| result of analysis)?

You seem to be the only one who percieves it as a reduced risk.


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

Yeah, get out of bed all you lazy bastards and post in the middle of the
night like me.