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[email protected] · July 12th 11, 11:31 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Mizter T)
wrote:

*From:* "Mizter T"
*Date:* Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:47:54 +0100

"Zen83237" wrote:

"Mizter T" wrote:

How were your nearly killed on the train?

How is the ignorant so-and-so LU's responsibility?

Warren Street to Euston isn't very far to walk.

Cue a response calling me an apologist - I'm not, I'm just
taking
issue with aspects of your rant which don't dispose me to look
favourably on your complaints. I was expecting a proper tale of
real
woe. This ain't one. Get over yourself.

Well lets think about this. It is ok for tube trains to be in
motion with the doors open. This is in the rush hour. The trains
are crowded people are standing next to an open door, they can be
accidently pushed or jolted out of the train.
Had the incident not happened there would have been a mass exidus
from the station. So what if Warren Street is close to Euston, I
have paid for Hammersmith to Euston, not Warren Street.
Lets say somebody had been killed as a result. No doubt we would
have heard blah blah blah, lessons learnt blah blah blah.
This kind of lethagy caused the Kings Cross fire, blah blah
lessons learnt blah blah.
Surley isn't too much to ****ing ask to have a safety cut, doors
open, train can't go. Even I could design that.
You must work for LUL to support them for a safety failure.

I missed the crucial fact about the doors being open whilst the
train was in motion as it was buried in amongst the rest of your
particularly un-Zen-like rant - it would have been preferable if
you had structured your post rather differently and made the door
issue your primary focus, because that is indeed the overwhelming
issue at hand - some guy barging into you on the escalator, or
having to walk from Warren St to Euston, are but tertiary issues
compared to that happening. A door of a train being open whilst
it's in motion is indeed a major safety issue and a serious
concern. And no, I don't work for LUL (or Bombardier etc).

I see the standard has some info.:
http://tinyurl.com/6yyk8pc

Roger