Re: New trams

["Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com>]

"Bradley Torr" <truenorth@one.net.au.SPAMTRAP> wrote in message
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> I'd like a Melbourne or Adelaide-style ticketing system in Sydney too, but
> I don't think it's likely to happen. The current state government appears
> to be completely disinterested in improving public transport outside of
> certain marginal seats, and the private bus industry in NSW seems quite
> content with current arrangements which work in their favour and leave
> public transport users out in the cold (literally).

I think you're being unfair on the Government.  It is the operators who are
holding back an intergrated ticketing system.  They all want a 'flag fall'
from a multi-modal ticketing system.
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> Bring on further STA-ndardisation, I say.

Why?  STA each year records losses!

Ted