[Melb] Cheap fares back in place

["David Lindstrom" <D_Lindstrom@Bigpond.com>]

http://www.theage.com.au/frontpage/2001/01/04/FFXH5QQXJHC.html

Cheap fares back in place

By SIMON JOHANSON
THE AGE ONLINE
Thursday 4 January 2001, 05:53 PM
Train fare pledge dumped

Melbourne's private transport companies will bring back the cheap fares
scrapped earlier this week after a public outcry prompted the Victorian
Government to intervene.

Transport Minister Peter Batchelor said today the government had negotiated
with the companies to immediately reintroduce the family, group travel and
other fares that were scrapped on January 1.

The tickets reinstated are the Group Get-A-Bout, Off-Peak Saver, Family
Daily, Pre-Paid Travel Authority and the Met Delegate Card.

Connex and Bayside Trains have agreed to reintroduce the tickets until
alternative tickets which they planned to introduce later this year became
available, Mr Batchelor said in a statement.