Things OBS wish you would stop doing.

[fairviewroad]

This is standard practice on VIA.

A passenger in each car is asked if they would volunteer to be shown how to open doors and help with the evacuation in an emergency if the attendant should become incapacitated

Makes a lot of sense, and is reminiscent of the way airline personnel enlist people sitting in exit rows to assist in the event of an evacuation. The difference of course is that those passengers are physically blocking the exits in a way that a train passenger is not. But I do like the idea to do this on a long-distance train, too. It wouldn't make a lot of sense on corridor trains since people are getting on and off frequently.

This is standard practice on VIA Corridor trains also.

Interesting. Well, I suppose it would be relatively easy to figure out which passengers will be riding the entire way and just ask one of them.

 

[me_little_me]

I travel overnight on sleepers and daytrips in coach. Coach "service" has been almost non-existent and I have never known a coach attendant to ever clean the restrooms.

As to sleepers, this year has been the best with 2 of 7 being excellent, 3 being very good and 2 being "do as little as possible". Last year was not quite as good. 2 excellent, 2 good and 2 "do as little as possible"

 

[SanDiegan]

Make that two AU Members who've been on a PV trip. Have done several. Some of the trips posted on larail.com are quite reasonable.