Re: Reducing fare evasion

["Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au>]

"OgO" <quentisl@leaves.qjc.cjb.net> wrote in message
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> In aus.rail, on 06 Dec 2000, James C. announced:
> >Extra station staffs/connies. One of the best and <friendly> way.
>
> Yes I agree, but if they're going to do that, what's the point of the
whole
> metcard thing? - that just makes it (more of) an annoyance (than it
already
> is)?

You can have less people selling more tickets, because some people can buy
tickets at machines.

And you can have one person staffing lots of gates, like at the big city
stations now. I remember the bad old days of Flinders Street in peak hour,
with hundreds of people coming off a train on platform 12, all having to get
past 2 people checking tickets.

> it also means that we have lots of staff - like we used to, and we have
all
> those machines and validators and stuff which cost a bundle, and with the
> staff back we needn't have bothered and could have saved all that money
and
> used it on better trains/stations/whatever...

Well they *could* have, but they didn't. You can't turn back the clock, you
can just move forward from here, make the most of the situation now.


Daniel
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Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
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