Re: Tickets plan wins support

[amorton@mudguard.ee.mu.oz.au (Anthony Morton)]

>> Melbourne public transport users have applauded a plan to scrap $100
>> fines for fare evasion and instead make offenders buy $80 worth of
>> tickets. But the radical bid was condemned by the State Opposition and
>> the Public Transport Users Association, which claimed the move would do
>> little to stem the swelling numbers of ticket dodgers.

Al <alpout@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>Bit of a contradiction isn't it: "Melbourne public transport users have
>applauded" but "the radical bid was condemned by the Public Transport Users
>Association".

If you read the full article you'll see that the 'public transport users'
cited were a self-selecting sample of a hundred or so Hun readers phoning in.
Hardly representative of public transport users in general.

On the face of it the idea sounds attractive, but fiddling around with the
nature of the penalty isn't going to stop the fare evasion that occurs now.
(In fact if I was a fare evader I'd probably find the idea very attractive.)

TM