dunkalunk
Senior Member
I think there would be a security concern if the station were open, but there was noone there to watch it, particularly in a historic structure.
+ freakin' 1, and a departure somewhere in the 1700-1830 area. Instead the VIA "train schedule" lookup (not the reservations engine) is mysteriously claiming 85 (1055 ex Union) and 88 (2115 ex Kitchener) won't exist in November - I think someone went a little crazy when keying the October 25 cuts (trains 89/86) into the system.And maybe we can finally see a morning departure out of Toronto to Kitchener ...
I would think the stations from Kitchener east should remain staffed, both to assist customers in difficulty and to provide local information. The problem with the bean counters is that they rarely care about the perception that trains are becoming large buses and stations merely another sort of bus stop rather than something to which you can add value.Not sure I see there being staff at the station a big deal or not. You just need the proper machines and information screens these days.
Is the gender important?
Huh?
I very much think the use of that term is sexist! The commonly used word is "staffed".He was cracking a little joke.
I don't think he actually thinks the term "manned" is sexist. It would be awkward to say "humanned" or "personned".
He was cracking a little joke.
I don't think he actually thinks the term "manned" is sexist. It would be awkward to say "humanned" or "personned".
Technically, the words "man" and "manned" are actually gender-neutral terms. The gender-specific term would probably be something like "wereman," so it would only truly be sexist if he said "weremanned stations." Though one might argue that the fact that "man" has become synonymous with "wereman" in colloquial speech is itself an example of sexism, but that's another story.
It's interesting that the antiquated, doomed Northlander offers wi-fi and plug-ins all over the place. VIA has plug-ins but only in Business Class, but wi-fi throughout the coach.
GO experimented with AC outlets, what happened to that? The mini-tables I could see not lasting (as it makes it even harder to get out of the knee-crunching quads), but I would have thought that might have caught on.