(Hai Fe) - Passengers at the Bat Galim station were left behind without their equipment after the train left the station; A team of doctors who were on their way to the hospital in Afula got stuck on the platform.
Haifa, October 14, 2024:
At 07:08 an alarm was sounded at the Bat Galim train station in Haifa. The announcement at the station directed the passengers to enter the protected areas, which caused many of them, including a group of doctors who were on their way to the hospital in Afula, to rush to the protected areas. Some of the passengers, who were on the train at the time, left their bags on the train, assuming that the train would wait ten minutes, in accordance with the instructions of the Home Front Command and Israel Railways.
The train continued its journey
Contrary to the passengers' expectations, the train continued its journey a few minutes later, leaving them on the platform, in the protected spaces, without their personal equipment. Passengers who got off the train into the protected area saw the train continue on its way. Passengers who were supposed to get on the train were also left behind and had to wait about an hour for the next train.
The doctors who were on their way to the Emek Hospital in Afula, left the station in anger and drove to work in a private car.
Gap of expectations and lack of coordination of guidelines
The Home Front Command emphasizes that during an alarm one must remain in a protected area for at least ten minutes, but the incident at the Bat Galim station reveals a gap in the coordination between the emergency instructions and the operation of the train.
Residents and members of the medical staff are calling for the regulation of emergency procedures in the Israel Railways, with the aim of preventing similar cases in the future and ensuring the safety of passengers during emergencies.
Israel Railways gave a statement in response to Lai Fa - the news corporation:
"According to the defense instructions, when an alarm sounds while the train is stopped at the station, the train stops for ten minutes at the platform and then continues its journey. During the alarm, the train doors are opened in order to maintain the ability to quickly evacuate the train, should a safety need arise.
The date of travel resumption depends on a number of factors, including the availability of the track for trains to pass and the need to reduce the delay caused by the sounding of the alarm.
This is a complex and unusual situation from an operational and service point of view that we have been dealing with for the past year, with the safety of passengers being a top priority.
Our investigation shows that the incident described involved only three passengers, out of a train full of about 1,000 passengers.
We are in contact with the passengers in order to restore their dignity."
No sense, no worries. There were more than 3 passengers. But as you claim, three passengers should not experience the lack of sense
Some people are sour all the time and nothing changes.
Frauds like these happen and will happen in the future as well. You were not here with bad intentions, but in Israel as in Israel sometimes the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing or vice versa so things like this happen.
Stay optimistic, we are a wonderful and resilient people and we will win even if we lose the war.
PS When will they build a huge dome in this open space of the station???
Stupidity and evil is not an acquired thing!
It's built in, you're born with it!
Do you check the people who work with the public?
Be thankful that the train worked at all, the rotten one only cares about its trips
This is what happens when the employees are bibists, mentally challenged. Haha
Shove a popsicle up the ass. Enough with your incitement, everything is bibists, go get checked already.
In Iran, Gaza, Yemen and most of Lebanon - life as usual!!!
Children there in schools, citizens in a normal and happy routine. Here - only funerals and non-stop alarms. what is this?!?!??
Israel Railways do not know from their right or from their left
This is what happens when a transportation server fails in her job. The instructions are not clear. The right hand does not know what the left hand is doing.
This is already a lack of synchronization within the Israel Railways, a station manager says to make way for protected vehicles, and a train manager says go, the right hand is not aware of what the left hand is doing...
To be handled by the Israel Railways. Good signature
A transport server is not very smart to say the least.... It's time to release her from important positions. Give her a broom to clean the streets. Something that suits her intellectual level. Stupid with acceptance.
Israel Railways, the employees and the Ministry of Transport
Bleeping at everyone. That's how it was all these years
Lit Huk and Lit Dayan!
The shame did not go away from this transport
Israel Railways!
The mess just goes on and on and everyone is included
The Minister of Transportation has long since lost the word shame.