Re: [NSW] Fare evasion (sort of)

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

"Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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| "Hubert Lam"
| > I've been thinking about this too, especially with the side gates wide
| > open at stations with ticket barriers, it'll be hard to even calculate
| > how many "free trips" have been made over the past two weeks of the
| > Olympics! (hmm...17 fare free days? for such a wonderful and almost-
| > faultless rail service over the past two weeks as well!)
|
| I haven't heard anything, but CityRail must have recieved funds from the
government to make up for lost revenue and to pay for the
| thousands of extra staff, Olympic bonus, free food, extra services.
|
| >
| > I think the Olympic tickets should have had magnetic stripes, and
| > passengers made to pass through them...but this will obviously put
| > crowd control under extreme conditions as people bank up at the
| > barriers.
|
| A lot of people would be pissed off to lose their commemerative tickets in
a machine.
|

Really? They could have programmed the ticket so that it has similar
characteristics of a DayRover (of course without the bus and ferry
component)--then it won't be captured by the ticket! Hard as it may
sound....