Re: The stupidity of passengers.

[Bill Bennett <billbennett@ozemail.com.au>]

It cuts both ways. I grew up South of London and travelled a lot at all times of the day and
night on British Rail's Network South East. Sometimes there was trouble, sometimes not. I
went back a couple of years ago and travelled on the privatised service. I didn't actually
notice any major difference between then and now or between the overall NSE experience and
CityRail except that the UK ticket prices were nearly 8 times the cost of an equivalent
journey in Sydney.

Some services need to be privatised, it may even make sense for some NSW train services, but
I shudder to think of the consequences of a privatised CityRail.

mstrutt@newsmail.tafensw.edu.au wrote:

> In article <76m3c1$48n$1@lios.apana.org.au>, craigd@lios.apana.org.au (C. Dewick) writes:
> > Sigh... this is one thing in the favour of privatisation - fully-armed and
> > trained security personel, like what many US and Canadian transit operators
> > have.. They wouldn't tolerate people doing what people get away with now on
> > our trains.
>
>         And the propaganda we commuters are fed is that
>         the main argument in favour of privatisation is
>         that in the US and Canada, slack, lazy, stupid
>         & discourteous rail staff are not tolerated.
>
>         Reckon the trains are safer over there Craig?
>         Reckon the staff are better?
>         Know what a stooge is?
>
>                                                         - michael
>
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