Train crew should be required to drive between trains rather than have taxis provided

[dk1]

GTR spends over £20m a year on taxis. See this latest procurement notice: https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=SEP452182 (no idea why it's on the Sell to Wales site too!)

That’s not out of the way considering the sheer size of that organisation.

Some questions, purely out of interest. Are taxis in this context your usual "Jim's cabs" - or even Uber - and booked as and when? Or will there be a contract with a bigger firm that generally has capacity? Will there be proper SLAs etc in place? Taxi firms don't seem to be operated to the same kinds of contractual requirements that other businesses often operate to. What happens in cases when the operator says nothing available for an hour, which happens to public users now and then?

CMAC seems a favoured option for taxi solutions these days. My TOC uses them and apart from very occasional problems they have proved efficient and very reliable. Had two separate taxis from two different companies booked for me yesterday and both turned up within a couple of minutes of booked time.

 

[irish_rail]

This isn't going to happen, probably not even worth discussing it. Expecting a tired train driver who has been "in the seat" for 7 hours, after a 3 am alarm call to hop in a car and drive up the motorway is absurd. There would be fatalities. And what about traincrew who don't drive? Do you sack them?

 

[dk1]

This isn't going to happen, probably not even worth discussing it. Expecting a tired train driver who has been "in the seat" for 7 hours, after a 3 am alarm call to hop in a car and drive up the motorway is absurd. There would be fatalities. And what about traincrew who don't drive? Do you sack them?

To make an entire thread on this topic is an absolute farce in my opinion.

 

[skyhigh]

To make an entire thread on this topic is an absolute farce in my opinion.

To be fair on the OP, that wasn't their choice.

 

[dk1]

To be fair on the OP, that wasn't their choice.

I’m afraid I don’t have any sympathy on that front.

 

[Doctor Fegg]

It's 2023, not 1923

It’s 2023, not 1973, and we should be past the stage where people are required to buy a polluting, space-inefficient, child-killing metal box to have any hope of employment.