Re: DOO In Sydney?

[Don Allitt <nahgfa@zeta.org.au>]

Both Adelaide and Perth only have baby trains with small number of passengers on
each station.
Don.

Matthew Geier wrote:

> In article <RXztN=YPH1fObNCRb3bHCaXMltyk@4ax.com>,
> Bill Bolton <billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org> wrote:
> >"Exnarc" <gwrly@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> >
> >> They aren't so in those cases you use CCTV Monitors on the platforms, as
> >> does Melbourne now. The provision of vandal proof roller doors are of cause
> >> essential as are hoods to shield the screens during bright sunlight. Either
> >> way its cheaper than providing CCTV everywhere!!!
> >
> >The technology exists today to readily put flat display video screens
> >in the drivers cab, then there's no vandalisation problems or daylight
> >visibility problems.
> >
>  Both Adelaide and Perth have small TV monitors in the cab that automaticly
> turn on when the train is stopped with the doors open. They turn off after
> the train starts moving.
>  In Perth the cameras are on the platforms so there must be some sort of low
> power RF link from the platoform to the train.
>
>  On the matter of cammeras, Cityrail aint short on them. My station is getting
> at least a dozen on those new 'digital' surveillance cameras. All they need
> to add is a small transmitter near where the trains cabs stop that feeds the
> two cameras on that platform to a monitor in the cab.
>  With the current program to install security cammeras all over the place
> one of the major costs of equiping to run DOO has been taken care of on
> 'passenger security' grounds.