Re: Tickets plan wins support

["Al" <alpout@optusnet.com.au>]

"Anthony Morton" <amorton@mudguard.ee.mu.oz.au> wrote in message
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> >> 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
>

OK, I read the article, it was exactly 200 people who phoned in (172 for and
28 against).

How many people are in the PTUA?