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Old 25th August 2019, 05:41
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G'day BW,
The world continues to become more complex in design.
Resulting in the reduction of staff being on hand to rectify problems.
This is ok when all goes according to Hoyle.
But, when the wheels fall off, wrangling this technology can become time consuming.
Especially if the person wrangling such is not ofay with the intricacies.
The NSWR up til the late 1970s was the second largest employer in the state.
But capitalism dictates that costs must be cut.
Wages and benefits being one of the largest costs for any sizeable organisation.
YES, driverless trains are cheaper.
The BART network in Yankeeland was and continues driverless.
The sole staffer on board being to ensure that the doors are closed and to make any non-prerecorded announcements.
That person being there as an emergency attendant.
That is what occurred on the STUPID autonomous smog hollow monorail dingus.
The day when it failed in the middle of nowhere hanging in the atmosphere and the cattle panicked, subsequently an emergency attendant was employed to ride the thing.
Thankfully, that blot on the landscape was kyboshed some time ago and removed from smog hollow.
Our red rattlers zoomed around the Metrop with most doors flapping open in the breeze.
Fall out at yer own risk.
Today, that can't be permitted, so all doors must be closed.
I have fond memories of the good ole days in suburban Brissy.
Trains consisting of Evans carriages featuring outward opening individual compartment doors.
Platform attendants would run along slamming shut all of them doors just before the train set sail.
But, the ticket snappers were a sight to see.
Quickly jump onto the foot boards outside the carriage to snap tickets and jump off again prior to departure.
On the old timer toast rack trams percolating around smog hollow, the conductor actually rode the foot boards while them trams were in motion along the streets.
No way to get through inside the individual crossbench compartments.
The nefarious had a technique for holding open Tangarbage plug doors when the sets first appeared in smog hollow.
They would jam an aluminium soft drink can down near the floor as the plug door closed.
This prevented it from locking shut and that door could then be hefted back open during transit.
So, today, YES all our squirts feature door closed lights sprinkled along the car sides.
E GADs.
No doubt that modern day train crew can get embroiled in drama should them doors not be closed.
But, it don't stop the cattle from stupid acts.
I have witnessed cattle sprinting up the subway stairs onto a platform in smog hollow during the peak just as the squirt sets sail.
Them cattle doing a swan dive at them now closed doors.
SNOT.
Them cattle then rolling around on the platform.
We can't solve all potential injury when some people are IDIOTS.
Steve.
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