Connex Idiots
Morphet
people take that "once a year" trip into the city by Public Transport
to do their Christmas Shopping.
One would think that this would be an opportunity to impress these
passengers and maybe get some return business, but can Mr Connex
please tell me how you are going to impress anybody when you run 3
carriage trains during one of the busy times of the year, and have
people hanging out the window.
It was really nice Mr Connex when we went past Camberwell Station (and
Ringwood...and Bayswater) and saw all those nice trains sitting empty
in the sidings, at least I assume they were sitting there...it was
quite hard to see anything apart from the armpit of that guy who seems
to never wear deodorant (does he follow me around, or is there more
than one of them??)
Mr Connex, you have got to do more basic things to get more passengers
then paint your trains and give yourself a name change.
(Does anybody know what amount of cost savings they get from running 3
carriage sets, and the reasons they give for doing so?)
Paul McCabe
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> One would think that this would be an opportunity to impress these
> passengers and maybe get some return business, but can Mr Connex
> please tell me how you are going to impress anybody when you run 3
> carriage trains during one of the busy times of the year, and have
> people hanging out the window.
It's also a very good time of year to terminate all Burnley Group services
at Flinders Street, instead of running around the loop (as is the case on
Sunday 17 December).
> It was really nice Mr Connex when we went past Camberwell Station (and
> Ringwood...and Bayswater) and saw all those nice trains sitting empty
> in the sidings, at least I assume they were sitting there...it was
> quite hard to see anything apart from the armpit of that guy who seems
> to never wear deodorant (does he follow me around, or is there more
> than one of them??)
...the smashed window on my Hitachi on Wednesday afternoon prevented any
armpit smell whatsoever funking out the carriage...
> Mr Connex, you have got to do more basic things to get more passengers
> then paint your trains and give yourself a name change.
Call 131638. Hearing someone say "uh...um, sorry OK" will fix EVERYTHING :)
Daniel Bowen
No wonder the shops in the city aren't as crowded as places like Chadstone
(I sampled both on Saturday).
Plus Connex should have expected loads more people on Saturday as 50,000
people walked through the Citylink Burnley tunnel and popped out at Burnley.
Daniel
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"Morphet" <mor...@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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Daniel Bowen
rant. Let's see if they get back you within 24 hours like they say they
will. I'm having a go at them now, and will do Bayside after that.
Daniel
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"Morphet" <mor...@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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David Bennetts
today's London Daily Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003066511903343&rtmo=QwQk090R&atmo=99999LM9
&pg=/et/00/12/17/nass17.html
Regards
David Bennetts
Bowral NSW
James C.
"Daniel Bowen" <dbo...@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote:
> Same applied to Bayside Trains. How stupid are they?
>
> No wonder the shops in the city aren't as crowded as places like
Chadstone
> (I sampled both on Saturday).
That also have something to do with people these days prefer to shop at
suburban shopping centers(Northland, Doncaster,highpoint, Southland
etc) rather then city. Suburban shops mostly are cleaner, brighter and
more spacious, and safer.
People also rush into places like Willamstown on the weekend but
generally Bayside's Willamstown service are not very well patron. Maybe
a through Connex-Bayside train to Willamstown may help?
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Daniel Bowen
have to change at Newport. Perhaps they should extend back to Williamstown
pier, or somewhere else near the action, so you don't have to walk a
kilometre to the pier (I mean the passenger pier that's used on weekends).
Daniel
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Alex Pout
Along those lines, how about suffering in a non air-conditioned train from
Parliament to Boronia last week when it was about 35 degrees while every
station we went past that could (i.e. Camberwell (??) and Bayswater) had
plenty of air conditioned trains sitting there doing sweet FA.
Michael
<3a3d912d$0$19402$7f31...@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>:
>Along those lines, how about suffering in a non air-conditioned train from
>Parliament to Boronia last week when it was about 35 degrees while every
>station we went past that could (i.e. Camberwell (??) and Bayswater) had
>plenty of air conditioned trains sitting there doing sweet FA.
Those airconditioned trains were probably victims of the heat themselves.
Comeng's tend to shit themselves when it's over 30.
M.
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Daniel Bowen
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>>> <dbo...@custard.net.au> 12/18/00 03:24pm >>>
Gender: MR
Last name: Bowen
First name: Daniel
Email: dbo...@custard.net.au
Comments: Why on earth are you running short weekend trains at Christmas
time? Don't you know how overcrowded they get?
I just wanted to let you know that I took my kids to Puffing Billy today.
I did not use the train; I drove in part because I knew that travelling in
your short train would be uncomfortable because of overcrowding.
Regards, Daniel
====
I got an e-mail back this afternoon from someone at leoburnett.com.au (no
idea who they are; their web site doesn't reveal anything) saying it had
been passed to "the appropriate Connex representative".
Johann Fan
mailbox
>------Transcript of session follows -------
>r.mor...@ptc.vic.gov.au
>550 <r.mor...@ptc.vic.gov.au> Mailbox not found.
so.. no.. they won't get back to you within 24 hours, because they won't get
it!
btw.. I complained about 3 car trains on weekends in November last year,
they rang me and said they would look into it... blah, blah, usual crap...
cheers
Johann
Daniel Bowen <dbo...@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote in message
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Arthur Marsh
rmor...@connexmelboune.com.au in it.
Does that get forwarded to r.mor...@ptc.vic.gov.au and bounce?
Arthur.
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Michael Wierzbinski
> I sent a comment via the Connex web site yesterday.
> ====
> >>> <dbo...@custard.net.au> 12/18/00 03:24pm >>>
> Gender: MR
> Last name: Bowen
> First name: Daniel
> Email: dbo...@custard.net.au
> Comments: Why on earth are you running short weekend trains at Christmas
> time? Don't you know how overcrowded they get?
> I just wanted to let you know that I took my kids to Puffing Billy today.
> I did not use the train; I drove in part because I knew that travelling in
> your short train would be uncomfortable because of overcrowding.
> Regards, Daniel
> ====
>
> I got an e-mail back this afternoon from someone at leoburnett.com.au (no
> idea who they are; their web site doesn't reveal anything) saying it had
> been passed to "the appropriate Connex representative".
In other words, never to be heard of again.
W O Topp
"Michael Wierzbinski" <wizze...@NOSPAMoptusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> "Daniel Bowen" <dbo...@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote:
> > I got an e-mail back this afternoon from someone at leoburnett.com.au
(no
> > idea who they are; their web site doesn't reveal anything) saying it had
> > been passed to "the appropriate Connex representative".
>
> In other words, never to be heard of again.
Leo Burnett is a franchised advertising agency name. Sounds like the
initial complaint handling has been outsourced - hardly a good start to the
process because it makes one wonder if a non-employee would even know who
the appropriate person is.
Railvic
>
> The source code for the current form has:
>
> rmor...@connexmelboune.com.au in it.
"rmor...@connexmelboune.com.au" is in correct because it is missing
"r" in MelbouRne. Typo error?? Perhaps this will explain why the
message failed to deliver?
> Does that get forwarded to r.mor...@ptc.vic.gov.au and bounce?
AFAIK, most employees now have e-mail address ends with
"...@connexmelbourne.com.au" ...
> Arthur.
Daniel Bowen
jsh...@westpac.com.au
"Alex Pout" <alp...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> Along those lines, how about suffering in a non air-conditioned train
from
> Parliament to Boronia last week when it was about 35 degrees while
every
> station we went past that could (i.e. Camberwell (??) and Bayswater)
had
> plenty of air conditioned trains sitting there doing sweet FA.
>
That's why it's such a pity the Harris trains have long gone... you
could open the doors at any time and get a great breeze blowing through
the car at speed, much nicer than aircon IMHO.
James
Michael
>That's why it's such a pity the Harris trains have long gone... you
>could open the doors at any time and get a great breeze blowing through
>the car at speed, much nicer than aircon IMHO.
Too politically incorrect. Someone could easily darwinise themself.
Johann Fan
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> The source code for the current form has:
>
> rmor...@connexmelboune.com.au in it.
>
> Does that get forwarded to r.mor...@ptc.vic.gov.au and bounce?
>
> Arthur.
yeah, that was it, will try again with by direct email (not that they will
reply)
considering they can't get their timetables in table format online,
obviously they don't know what to do when they change email addresses!
thanx
Johann
Daniel Bowen
They're looking more like a bunch of amateurs every day, aren't they...
Daniel
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Alex Pout
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One problem was that the train was an all stations, not much chance to get up
speed and hold it.
Even the Red Rattlers in the Hunter have fans, and they're only about 50 years
old.
Al
Peter Parker
> My query bounced too - I have forwarded it and pointed out their error.
> They're looking more like a bunch of amateurs every day, aren't they...
That's short-changing amateurs! Sometimes amateurs do better than the
professionals - eg
your site + Chris Brownbill's + Meltrip versus the 'professional' Victrip!
Peter
Daniel Bowen
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Hey, do you reckon Victrip won a tender? Anybody want to put in a rival bid
the next time it comes up?
I have seriously considered putting up a fully fledged rival site, proper
domain name and everything. meltrip.com is available :-)
Peter Parker
>
> Hey, do you reckon Victrip won a tender? Anybody want to put in a rival
bid
> the next time it comes up?
Worth finding out.
Does anyone know the exact URL for the government site that supposedly
reveals (some of)
those contracts that were kept secret during the Kennett era? I think it
was talked about
on 3LO last week (they said that the big train and tram contracts were still
secret).
I'll try www.vic.gov.au as a starter and see what I get.
Peter
B.
> Does anyone know the exact URL for the government site that
> supposedly reveals (some of) those contracts that were kept
> secret during the Kennett era?
http://www.tenders.vic.gov.au/contracts/major/default.asp
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Peter Parker
B. <gunz...@dingoblue.gunzel.net.au> wrote in message
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> Peter Parker <par...@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
> news:3a41...@news.alphalink.com.au...
>
> > Does anyone know the exact URL for the government site that
> > supposedly reveals (some of) those contracts that were kept
> > secret during the Kennett era?
>
> http://www.tenders.vic.gov.au/contracts/major/default.asp
Thanks. Found no explicit mention of any contract for Victrip. But it
could be under
PTC IT outsourcing. Details not available because 'negotiations not
completed'. Maybe release
would cause embarassment!?
Daniel Bowen
>
> Thanks. Found no explicit mention of any contract for Victrip. But it
> could be under
> PTC IT outsourcing. Details not available because 'negotiations not
> completed'. Maybe release would cause embarassment!?
Any substantial amount of money having been handed over for Victrip would
cause embarassment... Well, if anybody noticed!
Daniel
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