Re: Yarra Trams Article in Sunday Age

["Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au>]

Furthermore, a weekly costs about the same as 4 daily tickets. Unless the
zones used vary each day, I don't know why anybody travelling 6 days a week
would *not* get a weekly.


Daniel
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Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au
http://www.danielbowen.com/


"Rail Roamer" <leadscout@one.net.au> wrote in message
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> Well because we live in the computer age and there are also alot of
mongrels
> out there who go out of there way each and every day to bugger up the
> machine so they dont have to get a ticket. Then people such as you get
> caught in the middle.
> Whilst unfortunate it happens.
> One way you can minimze your chances of being 'grilled' is to do a bulk
> purchase or seeing as though you travel 6 days out of 7 why not get a
weekly
> ticket? This way you have the same ticket for each and every day, and only
> need to do one purchase each week.
> Might not suit you but going by what you wrote it is an option.
>
> Look for solutions.
> >
> > Tell me, why is it that 3 out of 6 days I travel, on average, I am
unable
> to
> > purchase a ticket from my originating station, because the machine I
need
> to
> > use (one that takes notes, or C/C) is out of service, not accepting
cards,
> > etc.?    And then why is it that I get grilled at destination stations
or
> on
> > trains by RPO's for not having a ticket, because the contractor
obviously
> is
> > unable to maintain the equipment properly?
>
> >
> > --
> > Look Closer
> > Andy B.
> >