Re: Tickets plan wins support

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

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

Of course not - you fare evade until you get caught, then you get $80 worth
of paid travel. Then once that is used, you fare evade again until caught,
then repeat the procedure.

If a penalty you pay actually gives you something, it is not actually a
penalty. Perhaps if they made it so that the fine was raised to $200, and
you got $100 of tickets with that (thus incurring an *actual* penalty) it
might have some merit.

Dave