‘They wondered aloud what I would look like with no clothes ... blowing smoke in my face’
Number of complaintsadmitted that it is “concerned” by the rise in anti-social behaviour on trains. Figures it released showed incidents on the Dart have almost doubled over the last two years. More than 560 complaints were made to the company by passengers in 2018 over issues like vandalism, assault and theft.Yet Irish Rail sought to console us with a statistic.
“On a sunny summer’s day, especially a weekend day, I have a knot in my stomach as I just know there’s going to be trouble. Trains getting smashed up, people are smoking, drinking, using drugs and fighting. When someone comes up to my cab and alerts me I’m scared to go back and investigate. I would have done so years ago but not anymore,” he said.
“The CCTV can be requested by gardaí and is downloaded from a server at that stage. We wanted it in our cabs as when the emergency chord is pulled it could be anything from a passenger having a heart attack to a full-scale fight. We have no idea what we are walking into,” he said.He believes management have shown apathy regarding increasing safety measures on trains and are doing nothing practical to address it.
He explained that since management closed the ticket offices in almost all stations on the Dart network anti-social behaviour has increased.
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