One man's perspective of the daily grind on board the Connex Melbourne metropolitan train system.
posted by Connex Whinger at 2:45 pm
An extract from my first post best sums up what this is all about.
"Perception is reality" was one of the many glib phrases my ex-boss used to regularly use. Well my reality is that I have never had a full week of the train that I want to catch running on time. Let me rephrase that somewhat inelegant sentence - I don't believe that of the ten scheduled trains that I would wish to catch in any given week, all ten have ever run as scheduled. Ever. In over four years of commuting on the Sandringham line, my perception is that at least one train per week is either delayed or cancelled.
That's probably a pretty bold call, so to turn my perception into reality, I plan to keep a diary for a while and we'll see how often Connex can deliver me a full week of reliable services. Yes, I know that's a little self-centred, but isn't that the whole point of blogging?
9 Comments:
...aha, now the Minister for Transport can be "weaselly" recognised.....
True - he looks nothing like a stoat - that stoatally different...
Another proud achievement here on Connex Whinger online...
Lost your sense of humour? But your pic is funny, right?
I thought I never had one.
I tried stand-up comedy but I preferred sitting down.
Not as bad as me literally burning a disc. But anyway, my pic is my pic, if it's funny so be it.
When you going to just piss off you little sheep-rooter?
Major computer malfunction, or when my focus is necassary elsewhere, or when every driver apologises for the a delay.
Right now Connex Whinger is smiling behind his computer, or should I say 'PDA' screen? Hoping all my internet access is somehow cut.
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anonymous 0:14 , if you don't like me, go have a bloody cry then grow up. DEAL WITH IT you immature git. Your mother isn't here to hug you anymore...
Funnily enough, Perth has bona fide Internet connections, it's really not the technological backwater many might suggest. So I can connect using a real computer rather than using the PDA. But no, I am not that mean-spirited that I'd like to see your Internet connection cut!
Out of interest is it relatively easy to gain Wi-fi access?
I thought i heard something ages ago aobut station having wireless thanks to Telstra (egh, as it's going to happen) Or maybe it was McDonalds?
Well, my regards.
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