On Aug 12, 12:01*pm, David F wrote:

On 12 Aug, 10:31, Mike Bristow wrote:

I suspect that Mr Crow is more worried about the safty of his members
than the safty of the public.

I suspect he's more worried about the safety of his big, fat pay
packet to match his big, fat head.

Most people I know prefer travelling on the DLR rather than the tube
on the basis that there are fewer staff, and everything seems to run
smoother. People correlate these things together, because the machines
don't go on strike and stations don't needlessly close because there's
nobody working at them.

Are you not perhaps jumping to something of a conclusion there in the
reason why people you know prefer travelling on the DLR? Is it not
just because it works (or is more likely to)?

I know people who like the DLR, but the reason given isn't that it has
fewer staff. Yes, the lack of need for drivers does make it less
susceptible to one type of industrial action, but the Train Captains/
PSAs can (and occasionally do) still threaten to strike.


Every time I go through Bank station, there are two staff standing at
the top of a closed escalator / lift directing people to take another
route. Never mind the fact that a sign would do, why does it take two
people to do this? Customers of the tube can see overspend and wastage
every day.

Subterranean stations are very different from a safety point-of-view
though - there's a whole host of safety requirements and associated
staffing requirements (and things are fairly strict these days post
the '87 KXSP fire).

I don't know of the specific logic in play at Bank station, but
perhaps these bods have some sort of crowd-control / in-case-of-fire(-
at-busy-times) function that's not immediately apparent.