GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

[smallspy]

Hate to break it to you but they've already deprioritized safety in the name of on-time performance metrics. Trains no longer hold at a platform if someone presses the priority alarm, too many false alarms they say. So now they are to get going first and then only once they've left the station will the CSA go and check things out. Sorry, but your heart attack or assult can wait people need to get home but hey at least you can text 77777 for help now in case you forget to call 911

This isn't specifically true.

There are some schedules that are known to be more full or troublesome than others. And those trains get two CSAs.

By having the conductor in the body of the train. It would seem the plan is to have the engineer operate on his own at the front with the cndr in the body. This is actually how CP and CN did it at the end of their tenures.

CP did do this for the last several years before they handed over the operation to Bombardier. CN, however, did not.

But GO wanted a more customer friendly approach when 'the Bomb' took over hence why they created the CSA position. OOI's contract proposal doesn't indicate that the CSA is a guaranteed position like Alstoms did, so the writing is on the wall. But it doesn't seem like they'll make the switch right away it seems that'll happen only after the next generation of equipment arrives, presumably equipped with in cab signaling.

It's more than just that. The CSA is not a running trade - therefore, it pays less, the hours-of-service restrictions are less onerous, etc. Back in the before times, that position was staffed by a second conductor, who had to deal with all of the same regulations and restrictions that the other two guys at the head end had to deal with.

Dan

 

[Krypto98]

Not quite sure about that personally, there’s definitely others here that would be able to give a better answer than I would’ve been able to though

One rumor I heard was they would all get standard 2 weeks in the first year, and then what they got before at alstom in year 2