midland mainline train staff need media training.
in fact, it would be in the various rail company's benefit to give all of their staff some media training. picture this if you will, well spoken and intelligable voices over the public address system advising customers in a suitable volume that a narrow selection of cold drinks, danish pastries, a BLT sandwich and large cookies are available until coventry, not as loud that makes your ears bleed as your hurry to prod your fingers to stop the incessant droning, but loud enough so that you can just about make out that they are sorry to announce that hot drinks will not be available due to passenger action in the chepstow area - and they would sound apologetic, rather than a half smirk in their voice as they remember they brought a thermos flask of soup whereas the rest of the customers towards the rear of the train will be parched before they even pass through Kenton.
It would also stop situations like today's PR fiasco of putting fake parking tickets on people's cars to drum up support for using the trains. Are the advertising agencies, or indeed their clients so stupid as to realise why people don't like using trains?
An example, it cost me �28 to travel for two hours to the west midlands in utter non comfort this evening. For €28, I'm reliably informed I can travel as far as Austria in the same amount of time. Still, I'm travelling by train, because its better for us. Apparantly, as the video advertising board in Euston station says train travel actually *lowers* harmful emissions which damage the environment. Use the train more often, it will make other people's cars and refridgerators less dangerous. Yay green!
in fact, it would be in the various rail company's benefit to give all of their staff some media training. picture this if you will, well spoken and intelligable voices over the public address system advising customers in a suitable volume that a narrow selection of cold drinks, danish pastries, a BLT sandwich and large cookies are available until coventry, not as loud that makes your ears bleed as your hurry to prod your fingers to stop the incessant droning, but loud enough so that you can just about make out that they are sorry to announce that hot drinks will not be available due to passenger action in the chepstow area - and they would sound apologetic, rather than a half smirk in their voice as they remember they brought a thermos flask of soup whereas the rest of the customers towards the rear of the train will be parched before they even pass through Kenton.
It would also stop situations like today's PR fiasco of putting fake parking tickets on people's cars to drum up support for using the trains. Are the advertising agencies, or indeed their clients so stupid as to realise why people don't like using trains?
An example, it cost me �28 to travel for two hours to the west midlands in utter non comfort this evening. For €28, I'm reliably informed I can travel as far as Austria in the same amount of time. Still, I'm travelling by train, because its better for us. Apparantly, as the video advertising board in Euston station says train travel actually *lowers* harmful emissions which damage the environment. Use the train more often, it will make other people's cars and refridgerators less dangerous. Yay green!
