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-- David Johnson CityRail Guard trainman@ozemail.com.au http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/
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Message-ID: <3529A606.28EA937D@ozemail.com.au> Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 14:05:26 +1000 From: David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> Reply-To: trainman@ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: aus.rail Subject: Re: No-kiss area for Flinders st Station References: <3525CF50.1F5E@tbsa.com.au> <3526b264.1732602@news.magna.com.au> <352823FF.62D5@iprolink.co.nz> <6gbpis$85v$1@mirv.unsw.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Geoff Lambert wrote:
> Absolutely. Most platforms have a marked "Night-safe" area, where the > magic blue lines are supposed to protect you from muggers.
The "magic blue lines" are simply to indicate where the last two carriages of the train are supposed to stop. Passengers still ignore them, and the platform announcements, so, when you get to Town Hall, you are delayed a couple of minutes while you wait for all the passengers to walk down to the night-safe area.
-- David Johnson CityRail Guard trainman@ozemail.com.au http://www.ozemail.com.au/~trainman/
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