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Re: New trams

Ted Gay wrote:

> "Bradley Torr" <truenorth@one.net.au.SPAMTRAP> wrote in message
> 01c0d0a4$34ef8420$a52365cb@default">news:01c0d0a4$34ef8420$a52365cb@default...
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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.


Last I heard, National Express (aka Westbus) was the stumbling block...