Re: fare evasion

["Mike Alexander" <malex@bigfoot.com>]

How about some on-train inspections while still in the outer zones.

That'd get them

Regards,

Mike Alexander
(malex @ bigfoot com)

"Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote in message
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> You mean the people avoiding paying for more than zone 1 are suffering
> delays trying to cheat the system? Poor little sausages! Time for
> inspections at the gate at Huntingdale, I think!
>
>
> Daniel
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> "John Elliott" <jae3806@usa.net> wrote in message
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> > I travel to and From Berwick and they should put more validating
machines
> on
> > Huntingdale station, its getting a bit of a crush with a group of people
> > jumping off the train and validating their tickets in the zone one area
> and
> > jumping back on the train again.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "OgO" <quentisl@leaves.qjc.cjb.net> wrote in message
> > 9002683D1ogo1mynxwowaustcom@203.109.250.24">news:9002683D1ogo1mynxwowaustcom@203.109.250.24...
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > While sitting on a train with nothing better to do, I put my mind to
the
> > > problem of fair evasion, and how to stop it.
> > >
> > > The idea I had, which I like most is frequent traveller points, which
> > > would work in much the same way as frequent flyer points.  If there
was
> > > some sort of decent incentive to collect points, that might encourage
> > > people to buy tickets.
> > >
> > > I also had the idea of rather than buying a paper (cardboard,
whatever -
> > > throwaway) ticket every time you travel, you have a plastic card which
> can
> > > be recharged with more credits.
> > >
> > > I thought this was a good idea simply because of the amount of used
> > > metcards I see lying on the ground - but I did think of a way you
could
> > > further this idea to reduce fair evasion, though i doubt it will catch
> on:
> > >
> > > When you get on the train in the morning, and validate, it reduces
your
> > > credit by the cost of a 2 hour ticket - if you then use it again in
the
> > > afternoon, it takes the difference between a 2 hour and a daily ticket
> (I
> > > don't know how much it is).  If you use it the next day, same, until
you
> > > use it enough during the week for the cost of a weekly ticket - then
you
> > > don't get charged any more that week.  This could go on for monthly
and
> > > yearly tickets too.
> > >
> > > The bonus for commuters is that the more you use it, you get charged
the
> > > best price - encouragement to use it more.
> > >
> > > Hopefully the bonus for the train company is that people will use it
> more
> > > often rather than not buy a ticket at all, so it works out for them
too.
> > >
> > > I don't know, they were the two ideas I came up with which I thought
> were
> > > pretty good and I thought i'd share them with you.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Ogo
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