Re: Re: Fwd: Sydney, Australia - "daily telegraph": not all LRT construction workers productive
  Brian

Along the CSELR, there are a number of site access points provided for
vehicles. Even when there is no actual work being done, there is a
traffic controller on duty at the access point. There is little else
for them to do other than play with their phones or smoke. At one
pedestrian crossing there are two controllers (covering 24 hours)
opening and closing plastic chain "gates" in coordination with the
traffic lights (justifiable as there is "bidirectional" traffic with
limited approach visibility)

Brian

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The terrorgraph hates workers too.
I wouldn’t take this too seriously as the workers have to show up to
get their pay, and what happens after that is up to the managers doing
the supervision. If there are more workers on a site than are needed
for the work it’s a management problem, and with all the OH&S
bullshit these days (once workplace safety ceased being an issue dealt
with by unions and was taken over by management and dictated by their
compensation insurers it’s become a tool of oppressive
micromanagement) there are usually many useless jobsworths doing
“worksite protection” hanging around most worksites.
As for contractors, on both the Bondi Junction turnback and the
Cronulla Line duplication, the last two jobs I worked on before
leaving the Railcrap vale of tears, when the Railcrap employed
electricians came in to do testing and remediation, we had to rewire
most of the crappy, incorrect, untidy work done by the contractors
anyway. They have no accountability for the shoddy lazy incompetent
work they do that has to be fixed. I believe now, after six years of
O’Farrell-Baird-Gladys government, the situation is even worse, and
I expect much of the privatised work done on both CSELR and the metro
to be equally poorly done.
Of course, if this lazy bludging incompetence leads to a signalling
failure that causes a derailment or collision on their idiotic
driverless toy train, no-one will gloat with more satisfaction than
me.
Tony G

On 18 Sep 2017, at 10:53 am,mcloughlin.dj@... [1]
[TramsDownUnder] wrote:

Well the Terrorgraph hates the tram scheme, so what else would it say?