Re: Yarra Trams Article in Sunday Age

[Vaughan Williams <ender2000@my-deja.com>]

What if you want a ticket that isn't sold by the machine? Like a daily?

What if you don't have the $4.60 in coins?

What if the machine isn't working (as they aren't a lot of the time)?

> I walk on to the tram, push a few buttons, put some coins in a slot,
and a
> ticket comes out.
>
> That's not hard. In fact, I manage to do it many times a week without
really
> straining my brain at all.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Alexander
> (malex @ bigfoot com)
>
> "Vaughan Williams" <ender2000@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Vaughan
>
>


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