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Re: End of the Sand Train?



In article <34c2efca.29215915@news.ocean.com.au>, pcc@ocean.com.au (Leslie
Brown) wrote:

> 
> I can't wait for the day that rail-services are totally privatised in
> Victoria. The government, and I mean all of them, has only ever proved
> that they are incompetant in managing their own resources. If anything
> good can be said about Kennet, it was that his government seems to
> have appreciated this fact, unlike Labour.


Unfortunately I don't believe that to be true. It's because the
Governments choose not to do these things properly.  Take West Coast rail,
hardly a customer service provider with any experience before they got the
Warrnambool train, but somehow they managed to turn it around and improve
passenger numbers.  If the governments stopped employing british managment
(who have privatised & got it wrong) and brought in Americans (who have
known since year dot how to run a railway at a profit) then maybe we would
not be suffering the rail downturns we are now.
Private operators, such as serco, specialise in making money out of these
deals not by efficent managment or being brilliant operators, but by
paying their shit employees and treating their employees like shit.  They
are renowned worldwide for this fairly basic tactic of reducing employee
wages by sacking most and paying the overworked rest sweet FA.

Conspiracy Mode ON:  Kennett has allowed the system to run down so much so
that when it gets privatised he can turn around & say, look, they're doing
a better job, good thing we privatised it eh.
Then again, did he go to a private or public marriage counsellor, ooh hang
on, this is geting into RANT MODE.

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