Re: Connex rail maps in refurbished cars

["Mike Alexander" <malex@bigfoot.com>]

The "Fares and Travel Guide 2001" also has "The Met" on its back cover...

And don't we still have "Metcard"?


"Leon Kernan" <lkernan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
jmSc6.88829$xW4.679925@news-server.bigpond.net.au">news:jmSc6.88829$xW4.679925@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> The last bayside timetables had printed:
> Bayside Trains, part of the Met.
>
> "Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote in message
> q%Nc6.88183$xW4.676279@news-server.bigpond.net.au">news:q%Nc6.88183$xW4.676279@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > "Railvic" <railvic@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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> > > Daniel Bowen wrote:
> > > >
> > > [snip]
> > > >
> > > > Connex and Bayside (and others) are in an alliance known as The Met.
> In
> > this
> > > > alliance, they share tickets...
> > >
> > > "The Met"?  Boy, haven't used this term in the industry for a few
years
> > > now.  What exactly is "The Met" nowadays??  Nowadays, even the name,
> >
> > heh well, yeah, but you'll find it still says "The Met" above most train
> > stations, and this is how most of the general public still thinks of it.
> >
> > > Public Transport Corporation (P.T.C.) is not used anymore.  The only
> > > alliance I can see between Connex and Bayside is through Dept. of
> > > Infrastructure (or the State Government of Victoria).
> >
> > I believe the PTC, as an organisation, doesn't actually exist anymore,
is
> > that right? In comparison, The Met was only ever a marketing name,
wasn't
> > it?
> >
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
> > dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au
> > http://www.danielbowen.com/
> >
> >
>
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