Re: Welcome to Bayside Trains

["Jim Leppitt" <leppijlk@virtual.net.au>]

Chris,
Brochures were being handed out to all customers at Flagstaff as well.
I travel Hillside. It was amusing to see people reading them on the train,
realize they are of no use, then drop them on the floor! If Bayside want to
do the right thing and re-cycle the brochures they only have to go to
Camberwell or Ringwood sidings and collect them all off the floor of the
stabled sets!!
Jim
Chris Brownbill wrote in message <372A9694.2C26147E@enternet.com.au>...
>Brochure being handed out yesterday evening at Parliament station entitled
>"Welcome to Bayside Trains".  At first glance it looks pretty, but when you
read
>more closely you start to see how my fears of network disintegration are
coming
>true now that we have segregated our rail system.
>
>Some illustrations of the 'half-information' or supplier biased information
this
>brochure contains are:
>-  The map only shows Bayside routes - Hillside lines are shown only at the
>junction points with arrows pointing off into the never-never.
>-  Whilst the brochure is at pains to point out that nothing has changed in
the
>way you pay for your ticket and travel, it then says that 'Metcards are
>available at all Bayside Trains stations'.  Well, that's the truth, but its
not
>the whole truth because there is an implication which the spin doctors know
>would never stand up in court that this is something better than what you
would
>find and someone else's stations.
>-  There is a section titled "Trains right to the Gate" in which the
benefits of
>train travel to the Zoo, the MCG, Shopping at Melbourne Central, and the
races
>at Caulfield are extolled.  What about Melbourne's main racecourse -
>Flemington?  Of course not - that's the other lot!
>
>In a different vein, there's a cutesy shot of a nicely renovated polychrome
>brick station in evening light with a softly lit city skyline in the
distance.
>Very nice I thought until  I looked a bit closer and realised it was
Footscray
>station.  Amazing what a good Photographer can do.
>
>Finally, they give an incorrect web address.
>
>3 out of 10 (for spelling and punctuation only).