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So I've been one week without car and you know I'm not dead yet. I will still be getting one, cause there is lots of this country to explore.
I can now compare the train system, and you know, when it isn't full of corrupt slackers who do everything to avoid responsibility and have anything that isn't there direct job deemed someone else's job systems don't completely fall apart with one failure.
Eg, i was on the train to work. a set of points had failed (where a train gets to go onto different tracks) and were point in a direction that lead to certain doom, Texas or Penrith, either way it was somewhere that i and infact the entire train didn't was to go. Were we totally stuck there while all the union members said they couldn't do it as it wasn't in there job description, or while they thought the scenario where the point would just work, or while a specially convened team of experts drew up several plans that could be shown to the minister for which one would look best in tomorrows paper 'twatkins trains wrecked again'. No. the driver politely advised us of the situation and then after 3 or so minutes then annouce that he could be hopping out of the train to manually switch the points over, risking life and limb while dangling from a rope bridge, avoiding snapping crocodiles, saving a pregnant lady from snarling lawyers and avoiding a high voltage third rail. wow, my hero. This was done and we were on our way.
Oh and the transit cops, are real cops, they go to the same academy and have the same full training, so they are also useful. Again unlike Sydney where they want all the powers and similar uniforms of cops, but well without the official training.
Anyhow i do need to thank the Honorable Minister for Transport in Australia, because if it wasn't for his ability to just flush taxpayers money away i wouldn't be working in the USA now.
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I can now compare the train system, and you know, when it isn't full of corrupt slackers who do everything to avoid responsibility and have anything that isn't there direct job deemed someone else's job systems don't completely fall apart with one failure.
Eg, i was on the train to work. a set of points had failed (where a train gets to go onto different tracks) and were point in a direction that lead to certain doom, Texas or Penrith, either way it was somewhere that i and infact the entire train didn't was to go. Were we totally stuck there while all the union members said they couldn't do it as it wasn't in there job description, or while they thought the scenario where the point would just work, or while a specially convened team of experts drew up several plans that could be shown to the minister for which one would look best in tomorrows paper 'twatkins trains wrecked again'. No. the driver politely advised us of the situation and then after 3 or so minutes then annouce that he could be hopping out of the train to manually switch the points over, risking life and limb while dangling from a rope bridge, avoiding snapping crocodiles, saving a pregnant lady from snarling lawyers and avoiding a high voltage third rail. wow, my hero. This was done and we were on our way.
Oh and the transit cops, are real cops, they go to the same academy and have the same full training, so they are also useful. Again unlike Sydney where they want all the powers and similar uniforms of cops, but well without the official training.
Anyhow i do need to thank the Honorable Minister for Transport in Australia, because if it wasn't for his ability to just flush taxpayers money away i wouldn't be working in the USA now.
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