Re: Smelly Melbourne Trains

["Grime" <grime@tpg.com.au>]

David Proctor <thadocta@spam.ozemail.spam.com.spam.au> wrote in message
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> Daniel wrote in message <928626843.723650@diddley.primus.com.au>...
> >Does everyone in this group have to argue with everybody elses opions?
This
> >was a valid point. Why should he have to change carriages? Why should he
> >have to wait for the next train hoping that it will be clean? GROW UP!
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Grime got everyone offside when he came in and suggested the entire
> Melbourne fleet should be replaced. The reason? Because they were too old,
> looked bad and smelt.
> And when was Isupposed to have suggested this David?

> Anyone with a scintilla of a brain knows that replacing the trains will
not
> fix the smell, since it is a cleaning problem - if they don't clean the
> current trains, they will not clean the new ones either.
>
> As for too old, the Comeng's were introduced in the 80's, hence are not
even
> 20 years old yet - nowhere near being too old (as anyone with common sense
> would see).
>
> As for looking bad - is this REALLY a justification to ditch the whole
fleet
> and buy new trains? The travelling public do not give a damn about how a
> train looks, in terms of body styling, etc. Anyway, if this WAS to be the
> justification for replacing the fleet, whose opinion do we use? No single
> design will satisfy everyone, and what do we do in 5 years time when
design
> trends change? Junk the new fleet and buy another new one?
>
> His original post displayed an infantile attitude, and this caused a
number
> of people to take offence. This carried over into his subsequent post
> describing his trip from Warragul to Geelong.
>
> DaveP
>
>