SprinterMan
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answer me this......boarded a 321 this evening.....sitting in the sidings all day with windows shut......iphone app confirmed it was 45 degrees for over 35 mins of the journey (on the usual knackered filthy seats of course).....
45 degrees Celsius? I find that hard to believe tbh, maybe it was about 35 and mr iPhone was playing up in the heat. Also do iPhones even have the correct apparatus to measure temperature inside of them? I can't see why anyone would fit a thermometer to a phone.
are you serious? GA ABellio are NXEA on speed! they come in, overbid the NXEA premium payments by 30%, reduce the cleaning regime, reduce the number of seats during the rush hour, invest zero.....well cheap in house interior refresh that falls to bits after 5 mins.....trying their best? Most staff i speak to cant wait to get rid of them! It is worse than NXEA and thats some achievement!
Bits in bold are either lies or factually incorrect....
I have found GA staff are always really friendly and caring. There are always 1 or 2 exceptions wherever you go, but on the whole GA staff are very nice and saying otherwise comes across as a bit rude and ungrateful.Why is the GA area staffed by people who dont give a toss about their customers?
I am part Dutch and I find the stereotype that all Dutch people do drugs is a tad offensive. A cheeky bit of Cannabis perhaps, but LSD is still well illegal in the Netherlands.Does anyone has something serious to say or are we all hi on GA LSD fresh from Holland!!!!
point 1. really? well employ people to do it then! or just stop people sitting down drinking tea all day!
I know quite a few people who would take offense to that. This stupid assumption that railway staff are lazy is incorrect and frankly cruel to railway staff who do a bloody good job in most cases.
calm down children....we all know GA are crap.....you cant defend the indefensible
Don't speak to people like that. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and taking that tone with people just creates a really nasty atmosphere. While I may not agree with your views, you are well entitled to share them, but please try to be a tad less rude.
So that's it, because they were more expensive making more people stand is totally OK. I will wait for Northern to send all 150s off lease as they are more expensive than 142s and the reduced capacity means more people have to stand but that's OK because some units were more expensive to use?!? You do realise that some trains were reduced from 12 321 to 8 321 and it wasn't just previously booked 317 booked services affected?
Anyway we are told that 2+2 seats ala 317/7 is better for commuter routes than 3+2 so you can't us that!! Less coaches = less seats = less space = bad.
I can see why they cut costs, given the lots and lots of zeros on the revenue target figures, but that doesn't make any of it good.
I didn't say it was the best solution, or even a good solution, but it was the easiest and cheapest. Sometimes bad things like this happen, look at WSMR. I do realise about the reductions and they must be frustrating to people. In an ideal world, the 317/7s should go to London Midland and do Liverpool to Birmingham, displacing the 350/2s that now operate that route to the London area to replace the LM 321s, which GA can then have. Problem sorted, BHM-LIV gets more comfortable stock, GA get a bigger fleet, fleet standardisation and save some money. Everybody wins. Sadly this won't happen due to the way the franchising system works.
The problem with the 317/7s isn't the 2+2 seating, it's the absurdly high proportions of seats that are 1st class and the areas for storing the food trolley/massive luggage racks/big tables taking up lots of standing room.
Adam
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