Re: Airport Link to Bring Changes.

["Dave Proctor" <thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au>]

Hubert Lam wrote in message <87r4sc$d98$1@news1.mpx.com.au>...
>Olympic Park also attracts station usage fee as there are no "Off peak
>return" tickets there. (The tickets say Off peak but the fare is not!)

But pensioner tickets work the gates there.

Dave

>"Dave Proctor" <thadocta@spambait.dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
>87qh8r$3nj$2@news1.mpx.com.au">news:87qh8r$3nj$2@news1.mpx.com.au...
>> Lourie Smit wrote in message ...
>> >This Tuesday's St George Leader contains an article on the opening of
the
>> >Airport Link on May 20.
>> >The biggest changes, according to the article. will be on the East Hills
>> >lines where some trains will do the airport loop while others will
travel
>> >the existing route into the city.
>> >It is also reported that new stopping patterns for the Illawarra line
>will
>> >also be introduced for trains to stop at the new Wolli Creek station but
>> >such patterns have not yet been published.
>> >The article includes a table which shows, adult single, return and
weekly
>> >passes from Hurstville, Sutherland, Engadine, Cronulla, Bexley North and
>> >Riverwood to the four new stations on the airport link.
>> >It is reported that the $1 pensioner ticket  will not be valid on the
>> >airport link.
>> >
>> >Comment: I hope pensioners from East Hills can still travel to the city
>via
>> >the airport link and that the restriction only applies to travel to the
>> >airport stations.
>>
>> As opposed to pensioners from elsewhere?
>>
>> Seriously though, the additional fare to be charged is a station usage
>> charge, not a line usage charge. I have *heard* (so don't anybody flame
me
>> if I am incorrect) that people with tickets valid *through* the new
>> stations, but not *to* the new stations (such as Travelpasses, Pensioner
>> Excursions, etc) will be able to buy station surcharge tickets at the
>> stations, on production of their rail tickets.
>>
>> Dave
>>
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