Re: Another hint to scrap Metcard?

["deano" <dsma@pigpond.com>]

I guess the ones I saw in Sydney who were doing the same thing were just as
innocent.
I'm a regular on both Cityrail and the Met. The difference is the machines
in Sydney display
CHILD in big fluorescent green letters. Okay I admit I may not be able to
legitimately assume
someone wearing a rolex and carrying a laptop is not a bona fide concession
card holder
(as one concession ticket purchaser had) but I'm pretty darn sure a bloke
with a long black
beard does not really qualify as a child. The simple fact is that waiting
near a metcard machine
for some period of time I saw numerous people purchasing concession tickets
who I would genuinely
doubt were concession card holders. I have not had a ticket checked in the
last three years either.
Dave Proctor <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> deano wrote in message ...
> >I could not believe the number of folks buying concession tickets and
they
> >were clearly no more eligible than I.
>
> How do you know? They might have been unemployed/disabled (not all
> disabilities show)/single parents (not all single parents are
mums)/students
> (not all students are young).
>
> >I guess they just rely on not getting caught and if they do
> >try and pass it off as a mistake.
> >I stood near a machine for about ten minutes and saw it sell 5
concessions
> >to well dressed business types.
>
> Might be single parents employed part time (my next door neighbour is one
of
> these, goes into a law firm twice a week and he stays home with his kids
the
> other three days and has a concession card). They might also be on their
way
> to job interviews, etc.
>
> Dave
>
>