Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Tue 2 May - Counting sheep...

These guys seem to be able to stay awake whilst counting sheep this morning. There's people on the platform and there's people in the carriage, all madly clicking their little tallying machines. Would be interesting to see them try to do this in the evening on a busy train!

We're just over two minutes late. Connexwhingerer, I'm simply reporting the times, as I've done for the last year or so. It's called keeping the b******s honest!

There's nobody at the barrier at the Degraves Street exit again and all barriers are closed. I thought a recent bit of communication from Connex said this would not happen.

At 18:03 we're advised the 18:01 is running three to four minutes late. Surprisingly it arrives at about 18:05 and is about five minutes late at Ripponlea. And yes Connexwhingerer, it makes a big difference - not the five minutes itself, but the 50% more passengers crammed in.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Daniel - exactly. Spot on.
The counters were working feverishly this morning at South Yarra. Our train pulled in and as usual it was packed. They couldn't have got a useable number though because they wouldn't have been able to even see past the people crushed closest to the doors.

Sam

02 May, 2006 16:22  
Blogger Tagle said...

God not this again.

Every 2 months we go through the same thing again.

It's not just passenger data collection. It's also about how "Connex: knows you've paid for your journey.

What were conductors for back ages and ages ago. TO see if you paid your journey, Validators replace the basic idea...

Seesh.

http://whingingconnex.blogspot.com

02 May, 2006 17:52  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did someone say something?

02 May, 2006 18:47  
Blogger Tagle said...

it's random trivia.

02 May, 2006 19:43  

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