TOareaFan
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So, in the height of last night's Kitchener line stuff caused by the person-freight train collision..I had a brief chat with AMA...I did not pursue it because, honestly, I assumed she would be busy and did not see the point in it at that time.
But I wonder if others ever have the thought that sometimes the reaction to incidents is too "formatted" into an one size fits all situation that leads to a "accident on any line leads to closure of the line"....rather than a decision making tree that leads to a different solution depending on the situation.
Here is the very brief convo..
I know they eventually did run a couple of trains out to Bramalea....but, in the meantime, I understand havoc and overcrowding was the situation as everyone gathered at Union.
In my (easy to format from armchair, I know) view, a decision tree would have said....
Am I totally out to lunch here?
But I wonder if others ever have the thought that sometimes the reaction to incidents is too "formatted" into an one size fits all situation that leads to a "accident on any line leads to closure of the line"....rather than a decision making tree that leads to a different solution depending on the situation.
Here is the very brief convo..
I know they eventually did run a couple of trains out to Bramalea....but, in the meantime, I understand havoc and overcrowding was the situation as everyone gathered at Union.
In my (easy to format from armchair, I know) view, a decision tree would have said....
- Line is clear to Bramalea....so we can serve Bloor, Weston, EN, Malton and Bramalea.
- Busiest station on line is Bramalea (followed by Brampton and Mt. Pleasant)
- So getting people to Bramalea gets a lot of people to where they are going anyway and the next two busiest stations are within that same municipality so people headed for Brampton and Mt. Pleasant customers are able to, either, use already existing local transit partner (BT) or call a cab, or a ride home (or to those other stations to collect their cars)
- Even if it takes us a while to get the shuttle buses running...it makes more sense to get people away from Union (where they get mixed in with people from other lines who are unaffected) and the portion of the customers that were headed beyond Bramalea is smaller than having all the customers on the line gathered at Union.
Am I totally out to lunch here?