Re: Tickets plan wins support

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

yes

"Paul Hambleton" <phambletonREMOVE@labyrinth.net.au> wrote in message
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> I don't know if this is the case or not but it wouldn't be because fines
go
> straight to the government coffers while the operators get a slice of
ticket
> sales would it?
> Paul Hambleton
> "DL" <D_Lindstrom@Bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > "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 :)
> >
> >
> >
>
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