Re: [NSW, CityDeRail] Worst Station Staff

[Vaughan Williams <ender2000@my-deja.com>]

> Untamed precocious little brats would be one way of describing school
> "children". I occasionally have the misfortune of travelling CityRail
in the
> peak hour. I dread it. Moreover, try telling Mr & Mrs Little Johnny
or Janie
> that their child misbehaves....

Yes.
It seems to depend whether the kids outnumber the commuters or vice
versa.

> In New Zealand they have a great scheme - everyone pays for a rail
journey.
> School children are required to buy school passes that cover a term,
ie,
> their parents as tax payers fork out the dollars. So if you want your
little
> Johnny or Janie to go a long way to school then you pay lots of money
to do
> it. Users pays. Much fairer.

Its similar here. Secondary students buy and all year ticket (a couple
of hundred bucks when I was still at school five years ago, probably
more by now).

Tertiary students on the other hand have to pay $111 for the privelige
of a concession card and then have to buy concession tickets (monthlys
is as economical as it gets)

so secondary = $5 card + ~$200 pass = $205 p.a
tertiary = $111 card + 12 x ~$35 monthlies = $530 p.a

Though here, student passes are valid all the time including weekends.

> More to the point, why should anyone get any sort of free travel?
Cant think
> of a financial institutions dont give zero percent loans/credit cards?

Not a very good comparison. Loans and credit cards aren't an essential
service. Everyday transaction accounts are and most banks offer some
sort of special arrangement for students and pensioners.

 Yet
> we seem happy to cart school kids, pensioners and transport employees
around
> the countryside for nothing. Everyone should pay something.

Well, they should still get appropriate discounts. Its easy to carry
students and pensioners at half price - and even offer a limited number
of freebies, as a lot of cinema's do - provided they don't make up
almost the whole of your clientele.

I agree that there should be a fee for student passes.

Vaughan


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