Thursday, May 5, 2011

Train Commuter Previously Mugged Has Concerns For Train Safety!

Every day I meet at least one or two nice people that love to share their ideas, thoughts and frustrations with local or State transport. It is so great just making people talk about it with such feeling and humane passion that public transport issues has grown within me. I can't seem to shake it off me. I want to promote what people want to promote, suggest or even improve.

So today was a special day where I met a young Commuter called Brian, who mentioned of his suggestion. At first he was reluctant to tell me because he was to notify me by e-mail or  blog comments.As it usually happens he was blown away of our group's stance within the community and we had so much many mutual agreements on so many community issues. He opened out to me on the train.

The improvement he would like to see is video security camera in all areas of train carriages. The reason why he wants this is because approximately a year ago  he was heading home from leaving the University of Western Sydney, North Parramatta  and heading home to Mount Druitt, he was mugged by a few young hoodlums who took off with money and placed him on knife point even to a stage where they wanted him to take them to a Rooty Hill ATM machine to take out funds. He gave the all the cash he had and was lucky that they didn't proceed with withdrawing cash from the ATM machine.

Brian didn't report this to the relevant authorities as there was no video camera on the train carriage. He blamed himself for this incident because he fell asleep and should have stayed awake - I totally disagree. It is the responsibly of the New South Wales Government ensuring there is more than adequate safety measures taken to make sure public are safe and secure at all times of the day with all types of public transport.

My suggestion is that we need to have at least 4 transit officers per train at night after 8.30pm - this safety measure maybe expensive  now but not expensive if it saves lives and places criminals in jails.

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