Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
In yet another leap of competence, Irish Rail managed to signal the Dublin-Limerick train to leave Heuston Station with a single passenger on board. This train would normally be packed to beyond capacity - and in fact over 300 passengers were left on the platform, wondering why theire train was leaving without them being allowed to board.
According to the Irish Examiner's story the station controller signalled to the guard after assisting a visually impaired passenger on-board - and a mix-up resulted in the guard interpreting the signal as the last passenger having been boarded, rather than the first.
If this was a one-off failure, it would be worthy of a laugh and a joke, but screwing things up appears to be the norm for an under-capacity, woefully mismanaged, incompetent rail 'service' that Irish commuters are forced to put up with. I also think the less than generous 50% discount allegedly offered is poor compensation for yet more inconvenience thrust on the Irish public. You can be sure that the Germans, the Swiss or the Finns would not stand for such inadequacies in their train service.
posted at: 10:35 | path: /rants | permanent link to this entry
