Re: Tertiary concession cards

["John Wayman" <trecker@optusnet.com.au>]

"Mike McBain" <mjm@silas-1.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote in message
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> Vaughan Williams <ender2000@my-deja.com> writes:
>
> >A Zone 1 Weekly here is about ten bucks, or you can get a monthly for
> >$37. This will get you to Melbourne or Latrobe uni - I'm not sure about
> >Monash, I think its in Zone 2.
>
> A Zone 1 weekly is $19-20 (at full fare rate--more-or-less half that for
> concession).
>
> Monash is simultaneously in Zones 1, 2 and 3. It's the only place in the
> Melbourne system with that claim to fame. In theory you could travel to
Monash
> in Zone 1, hop off that bus and directly on to a Zone 3 bus. You'd have to
be
> going somewhere pretty strange and have plenty of time, though.
>
This shows how arbitrary the Melbourne Ticket Zones are. They should be
eliminated, and replaced by a non zonal, time based system!

Cheers
John Wayman