RE: New trams

[Vaughan Williams <ender2000@MailAndNews.com>]

>> It should be straightforward, if they don't offer a good enough service,
>> they don't get paid the subsidy.  When $80 million goes in one quarter, 
then
>> they'll pay attention and run a proper service.
>
>No they wouldn't. There would be no further refurbishment of existing
>vehicles and track, no new trams/trains or extensions and the operators
>would walk away to cut their losses leaving no services at all rather
>than the high-class ones they are attempting to introduce.

And when your teeth fall out, the tooth fairy comes and leaves you money.

Whether or not people pay for tickets doesn't influence service quality, it 
influences the operators bottom line. A fall in fare evasion, if left to the 
operators own devices, wouldn't improve services, it would just increase 
their 
profits.

Vaughan Williams
Secretary
Public Transport Users Association
247 Flinders Lane
Melbourne 3000
http://www.ptua.org.au