Re: Yarra Trams Article in Sunday Age

["Ted Gay" <tedgay@bigpond.com>]

"Anthony Morton" <amorton@mudguard.ee.mu.oz.au> wrote in message
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> I submit that it's because people are pissed off at having an inconvenient
> new ticketing system forced on them that there's a general community
hostility
> toward ticket inspectors.  In any case the argument stands, that the funds
> required to employ enough ticket inspectors to make fare evasion on trams
a
> genuinely risky activity probably exceed those required to reinstate the
> conductors.
>
> Regards,
> Tony M.
>
Do as they do in at least of Germany city, charge a premium of say 50 cents
for all tickets purchased from a conductor.  When it starts to hit the
hip-pocket nerve even the illiterate and pensioners will suddenly learn how
to use a ticket machine.
Serve yourself has been accepted in supermarkets and for petrol at 'service
stations', banks' hole-in-the walls etc, what's wrong with serve yourself
ticketing?

Ted