Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Cityrail apologises for any inconvenience

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed a bit of a change at the station lately?

The electronically copied and pasted together announcements in the dulcet tones of Gretel Killeen appear to have been replaced by a real live person doing the announcements.

Why has this happened? One can only theorise (since a quick search of their website shed no light whatsoever on the matter)

Either...
  1. The auto-thingy is broken. It happens to the trains enough, after all. this has got to be a likely scenario
  2. It's a ploy to make people feel more empathy towards city rail. The chap does sound rather friendly. Let's see how excited he is after a couple of months of continuous train announcement, though.
  3. Gretel's tried to renegotiate her contract. BB is losing ratings every season. CityRail is having none of it.
  4. Some train driver's broken his thumb or something and can't drive. He's on worker's comp anyway, so they thought they'd put him to good use and stop him gettnig bored.
  5. Nothing's really changed, I've just finally lost the plot and am hearing voices.

what does everyone else think?

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