Re: [Melb] Tram Conductors

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

"Michael" <usenet.spam@gunzel.net> wrote in message
8FCB852D3gunzelT333@139.130.239.94">news:8FCB852D3gunzelT333@139.130.239.94...
> Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au> wrote in article
> <39E457EB.D5F01C1B@efs.mq.edu.au>:
>
> >David Lindstrom wrote:
> >
> >> I really think that there's no getting away from the fact that
> >> you really do need conductors on trams. Metcard works fine with
> >> buses and trains, but it's a hopeless system for trams.
> >
> >Here we go again with that old favourite.
> >
> >Perhaps the new trams should be designed to look like buses, so that
> >either (a) Metcard will then work, or (b) some new excuse would then
> >have to be found?
>
> Once again, someone north of the border, out of touch with how our public
> transport in Melbourne works, claims to be Metcard God. Everyone, listen
to
> Eddie, he might have some wisdom to offer! (-:

Once again, we have someone from south of the border digging their heels in
and steadfastly refusing to do what the rest of the world is capable of
doing out of sheer bloody-mindedness.

Dave