On Apr 22, 12:38*pm, wrote:

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:29:27 -0700 (PDT)
Mizter T wrote:
than meets the eye, as always). This strike is hardly going to win
anyone over - quite the opposite, it'll just make people more hostile
to the RMT.

I think the london public dismissed the RMT as a bunch of unreconstructed
bolshevik troublemakers years ago. I doubt the general opinion could drop
much further. More fool LUL and LT for not nipping them in the bud years
ago instead of always caving in to some or all of their demands. A few
weeks of mass walkouts and trouble would have been preferable to endless
minor and not so minor strikes over the decades.

You think a big showdown might have worked? Interesting. If so then
any reason to suggest why it wouldn't work now?


There is some suggestion on that thread that the real issue here is
that LU now take a far harder line on train operators who mess up than
they used to - so whilst opening the doors on the wrong side in the
past may have previously been viewed as a lesser transgression, these
days it is treated far more seriously with harsher disciplinaries
(even with the threat of the sack lurking in the background).

If someone doesn't know which side the platform is on then perhaps they're
not the right sort of person to drive a train. Its not as if they're
prevented from looking out their cab windows!

That's similar to my initial thoughts. However, being generous, I can
imagine the potentially disorientating effect of operating a train in
a tunnel for lengthy periods of time, and the danger of going into
'auto-pilot' especially when the platforms are for the most part on
one side of the train.