Re: Tickets plan wins support

["DL" <D_Lindstrom@Bigpond.com>]

"Al" <alpout@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> "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?
>
Either 172 or 28 :)