Re: NSW. North Coast XPT Service.??????

["Jack" <dave60@dingoblue.net.au>]

Gday Dave

Dave Proctor <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Jack" <dave60@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> > Gday Dave
> >
> > Dave Proctor <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> >
> > (snip)
> >
> > > Which is the better revenue option for the government and Countrylink?
> >
> > Does it really matter?  in the long run it is really just paper
shuffling
> > after all  :)
>
> Of course it matters - a pensioner travelling on a PTV is the government
> giving Countrylink money for that fare - a passenger paying a fare (money
> being paid from a passenger directly to Countrylink) is money that the
> government does not have to pay Countrylink. The less money that the
> government has to pay means it is less likely that they will make
wholesale
> cuts to services (if that is possible after the cuts of the last 30
years).
> On a full train, 50 fare paying passengers is much better than 50 PTV
> passengers, as it is money going in to the railways from outside, not just
> mere paper shuffling.
>
> Another way to look at it is that every dollar that is paid to Countrylink
> is an extra dollar for them to spend on maintenance, in the case of
> additional fare paying passengers on trains that are not full.

Yeah Point taken.... but what I meant was it really doesnt matter to
countryLink where the money comes from...... they get paid either way.....
so they dont worry too much about ptvs fillin the trains.....  which is only
proper when the service is sposed to be just that... a service.

Cheers
Jack