Point is the passenger km per staff member is shocking, even NIR do better, quite a few UK operators make IE look like a joke in staff efficency and they still have guards on most services, some services even have 2.
There is a lot of fat to cut out, far too many people standing around and what is shocking is staff numbers are not falling against a backdrop of the closure of many tens of manual signal cabins, automation and closure of many level crossings and almost network wide driver only operation combined with railcars appearing everywhere. Pouring money at it won't make it go away unless you want to use it to lay several hundred off
As we all know CIE and the RPA played the usual game of asking for twice what they really needed next year will be the same
Last edited by Mark Gleeson : 21-12-2005 at 10:19.
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