Re: [Vic] Metcard - What could be done.

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Michael [remote]" <mk@netstra.com.au> wrote in message
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> daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au (Dave Proctor) wrote in
> <Xij25.174188$701.2271748@news4.giganews.com>:
>
> >> So if they told you to go and jump off the Westgate Bridge, you would
> >> to it because "they told me so" - or you would fight it any way you
can?
> >
> >Crazy comparison - I expected better from you, Michael.
> >
> >In your civil disobedience campaign (because that is what it is) why not
> >suggest that people use CityLink without paying? Same situation, an
> >inconvenience (paying the toll costs money) which people can avoid by
> >ignoring it.
>
> I'm not telling anyone to break the rules here. I am discussing reasoning
> behind why the rules should be changed. For the record, as discussed
> previously I am one of many people who purchases the correct ticket all
the
> time, and gives it the first time validation. I am also unlike many
people,
> and validate my ticket each time I board a tram or bus. I also validate my
> ticket before boarding a train, unless it's a station like Flinders Street
> where it would be crazy to exit the station and enter the station for the
> purposes of revalidation.

Perhaps if everyone was like you, the system would work.

This will be my last post in this thread. It is pointles arguing about it, I
know I am right, you know that you are right, and neither of us will
convince the other. To continue arguing this will do nothing at all.

Dave