Re: (Syd) Airport Station ticket prices

["Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com>]

The stations are operated by a private consortium and attracts a "station
usage fee" of $1 per adult for any ticket. This also applies to Olympic Park
station, where there is literally no "off peak return" price on all of the
tickets issued to go to OLP

"Greg Cantori" <greg@mpx.com.au> wrote in message
news:8ao04h$oip$1@news1.mpx.com.au...
> I had a letter published in the local paper a few weeks ago, asking
> CitiRail for an explanation as to why ticket prices for the new
> Airport stations are much higher than tickets elsewhere. There has
> been no repsonse so far.
>
> Aren't these just ordinary new stations? Why will a weekly ticket
> between Sutherland and the International terminal cost $34, when
> a weekly from Sutherland to the city only costs $27?  How are
> these prices suppose to encourage people who drive to work at
> the airport (and there are thousands of them) to leave their
> cars at home and catch trains?
>
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