RateCityRail

So, do you feel safe on the trains?

Are you worried about being attacked on the train at night, or are you worried during the day?

Can you sleep on the train, or do you always keep one eye open looking out for trouble?

Do Cityrail do enough to keep you safe, or at least feeling safe?

It seems that the old security guards that used to wander the trains at night have not been replaced with the transit officers, which means the transit officers have the dual role of checking tickets and maintaining order. In my experience transit officers only really seem to operate until 10pm, catching a train after this time usually results in a journey no involving any security officers, transit officers or Police, I could be wrong though as this is just my personal experience.

I used to feel alot safer at night when 2 security guards patrolled every trainafter 10:30pm a few years back, you would usually see them 3 or 4 times on a trip from the outer suburbs into the city, even if they didn’t look like they could hurt a fly, or argue with anyone it was nice they were there, and their presence seemed enough to keep down rowdy drunks and hooligans.

All that said, unfortunately a 17 year old boy was stabbed and killed yesterday on a CItyrail train at 5:30pm at Marrickville on the Bankstown line. Reading the circumstances at the moment it seems that it was gang related violence and if it didn’t happen on the train, it probably would have occurred somewhere else. I don’t think Cityrail could have done any more to prevent this except perhaps transit officers on every train, but that’s probably not cost effective.

What needs to be done by Cityrail for you to feel safe?