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Re: Sanchez, Veolia, and the politics of "privatizaton".... What could possibly go wrong?
Author: ron
Date: 08-07-2019 - 13:23
Bob,
Are TransitAmerica, Keolis or Amtrak any better with a more disciplined safety culture and Decent wages and benefits to their train service guys?
Maybe even Bombardier should stick to building Airplanes...
BOB2 Wrote:
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> We'll never know if he actually saw the signal..
> As I recall, a railfan, claimed it was green...
> The problem with the timeline, is that he may have
> been already texting when he pulled out of
> Chatsworth, and he ran through the power switch...
> So much for the signal issues.
>
> You and I have seen plenty lousy signals, both
> where they're dim and/or dirty. But, how many
> power switches lined against you have you run
> through, and didn't bother to notice, while
> operating a passenger train full of folks...?
> None, I'd suspect, since you are quite
> knowledgeable, experienced, understand the
> consequences, and have a track record where you
> acted appropriately when doing your job...
>
> Sanchez was a complete loser. He had also been
> turned in by other crewmembers to Veolia. And you
> know, as a BLE officer, or from my experience as a
> UTU officer, in an industry where folks tend not
> to "rat out" fellow employees, just how f##ked up
> he was, just from knowing that fact.
>
> Veolia was incompetent, unsafe, and in my opinion,
> even at the time they were contracted with,
> utterly unqualified (based on the utterly
> unqualified staff and management I interacted
> with), to run any kind of rail operation.
>
> Veolia did nothing about Sanchez, nor did they
> take any of their other safety responsibilities or
> requirements seriously. And, this firm was let a
> contract to run ops at ML (which they utterly
> failed to comply with) for what was some pretty
> dubious political reasoning. Which is, of
> course, why Veolia ultimately paid out the $200
> million to the victims of Chatsworth...
Are TransitAmerica, Keolis or Amtrak any better with a more disciplined safety culture and Decent wages and benefits to their train service guys?
Maybe even Bombardier should stick to building Airplanes...
BOB2 Wrote:
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> We'll never know if he actually saw the signal..
> As I recall, a railfan, claimed it was green...
> The problem with the timeline, is that he may have
> been already texting when he pulled out of
> Chatsworth, and he ran through the power switch...
> So much for the signal issues.
>
> You and I have seen plenty lousy signals, both
> where they're dim and/or dirty. But, how many
> power switches lined against you have you run
> through, and didn't bother to notice, while
> operating a passenger train full of folks...?
> None, I'd suspect, since you are quite
> knowledgeable, experienced, understand the
> consequences, and have a track record where you
> acted appropriately when doing your job...
>
> Sanchez was a complete loser. He had also been
> turned in by other crewmembers to Veolia. And you
> know, as a BLE officer, or from my experience as a
> UTU officer, in an industry where folks tend not
> to "rat out" fellow employees, just how f##ked up
> he was, just from knowing that fact.
>
> Veolia was incompetent, unsafe, and in my opinion,
> even at the time they were contracted with,
> utterly unqualified (based on the utterly
> unqualified staff and management I interacted
> with), to run any kind of rail operation.
>
> Veolia did nothing about Sanchez, nor did they
> take any of their other safety responsibilities or
> requirements seriously. And, this firm was let a
> contract to run ops at ML (which they utterly
> failed to comply with) for what was some pretty
> dubious political reasoning. Which is, of
> course, why Veolia ultimately paid out the $200
> million to the victims of Chatsworth...
