Re: Cityracket ticket inspectors

["Andrew Tailby" <atailby@mpx.com.au>]

well for entry to the gosford platforms it has now been set to a charge of 1
buck why is it so step when it used to be only 40 cents
 you even have to buy a ticket just to see some one off on a country link
train or to see a steam train pull up to take on water.
andrew
"Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Eric Cartman" <erk_cartman@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > They can check you for concession cards there.........the area is
CityRail
> > property and you can be asked for a ticket/concession card while on
> CityRail
> > property.
>
> There is an implied invitation to be there, since it is also a commercial
> area. There is nothing unlawful about having a concession ticket, the only
> offences are to be on State Rail property without lawful authority, which
> for the non-paid area would be hard to prove. If in the paid area, they
> would have more of a case, since you need a valid ticket in order to have
> lawful authority to be in the paid area. Possession of a concession ticket
> without a concession entitlement would be the same as having no ticket, so
> there could be an offence there.
>
> As for the checking of tickets before going through the gates, I would
tell
> them (politely) that I was walking up to check the indicators, and that I
> was not travelling anywhere, and that they therefore had no right to
inspect
> my ticket.
>
> Dave
>
>