Re: Yarra Trams Article in Sunday Age

[Railvic <railvic@primus.com.au>]

Vaughan Williams wrote:
> 
> In article <3A700340.EB5B4916@primus.com.au>,
>   railvic@primus.com.au wrote:
> > A very good response ... If you don't want to pay because of various
> > reasons, don't use the service.  Afterall, why should public transport
> > be any different to airlines?  If you don't pay, you simply don't
> board
> > the plane and fly!!
> 
> Simple. Because the system is set up making it hard to buy tickets and
> easy to fare-evade. If its the reverse (easy to buy tickets and
> relatively hard to evade) there should be a high level of voluntary
> compliance.

Can you suggest how to make "easy to buy tickets and relatively hard to
evade" then the current setup?  You let the machine know the type of
ticket you need, insert your payment, then collect your ticket.  How
hard is that and it is no different than buying tickets from a person? 
It is interesting to see people have no trouble using bank ATMs or play
a pokie machine, but have such great difficulty in using ticket machines
...  Furthermore, the range of tickets available have not changed from
the pre-automated ticketing days and the zone tickets are not new in
Melbourne either!!

> I'm sure now that Mr Murray knows that M.Guyot is hurt that he doesn't
> buy a ticket he'll start doing the right thing, ho ho ho.

Railvic