Ahhhh, here we go again. :mad: Just THREE FUCKING WEEKS since the last one. And that’s just the ones that have affected me…who knows how many have occurred on this line in between.
Now today my wrath is not for the poor schmuck who toddled onto the line at Bentleigh. It ‘might’ have been an accident, but the newspaper is reporting it as ‘no suspicious circumstances’ and that’s journo-speak for suicide here in Australia. But anyway, he’s mush now.
However, please PUBLIC TRANSPORT PROVIDERS, please get your fucking act together when shit like this happens.
When you cancel the train-service because of accidents, I know it can take a wee while to round up some buses. But while we’re waiting, more and more people are disgorging from the train in the hope of getting home too. It’s really REALLY important to get buses happening ASAP, because before you know it, you have five or six hundred people milling on the kerb getting antsy (maybe more, I’m hopeless at calculating crowds). The accident happened at 12.15 apparently. By 2.30 when I arrived, it was fucking bedlam.
And finally ONE bus turns up, and people who have already been waiting for two hours are being pushed and shoved out of the way by more recent newcomers…survival of the fittest I guess.:rolleyes:
Seeing the futility, and the potential to still be standing there many hours into the night, I rounded up four similarly frustrated commuters to catch a cab to the next operating station (Moorabbin). Forty-five minutes later, we’re STILL waiting for a taxi. :rolleyes:
But then, PROVIDENCE…a maxi-taxi (multi-seated job with room for Wheelies) pulled up to drop off a bloke in his wheelchair. I politely asked if he had another booking. No. So I asked if he would be so kind as to accept our fare for a ride to Moorabbin. No. WTF??
(Multi-sharing cabs in Aus attracts a different tariff. He assumed that we would not pay the increased price. He was probably right in that assumption, but we WERE prepared to make his trip worthwhile. As it was, we paid him $50 for a 6km trip, and he would have made a killing on the return as well, and AGAIN leaving Caulfield with other pissed-off commuters wanting to get home. Repeat ad-infinitum until the trains run again)
I finally talked him 'round and we got to Moorabbin on the homeward train, and we were the only passengers from further down the line. No bus had turned up to the station in the past hour, so I reckon there would have been ANOTHER thousand, maybe two thousand people waiting at Caulfield. The newspaper is advising people to add an extra 45 minutes to their commute tonight. Yeah, right. Good luck with 45 minutes…maybe four HOURS might be a better estimate.
I PAY GOOD FUCKING MONEY FOR MY PUBLIC TRANSPORT FARES EVERY WEEK. I EXPECT AND CAN HANDLE ODD TIMETABLING ISSUES, I CAN UNDERSTAND SHORT DELAYS, BUT WHEN IT HAPPENS WITH THIS SORT OF REGULARITY, IT’S TIME FOR METLINK TO GET SOME SORT OF FUCKING CONTINGENCY PLAN THAT MAKES SURE WE FUCKING CUSTOMERS ARE GETTING SOME SORT OF SERVICE.
Good fucking grief. :mad:
Make it look like it was supposed to be autoerotic asphyxiation. While wearing a clown costume. With furry porn up on the monitor in front of you.
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