Re: Yarra Trams Article in Sunday Age

["Mike Alexander" <malex@bigfoot.com>]

"Vaughan Williams" <ender2000@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> What if you want a ticket that isn't sold by the machine? Like a daily?

I always make sure I have a few dailies lying around in case I need one.


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

Then I don't get on the tram. Just like I wouldn't park at a parking meter
if I didn't have the coins to feed it.


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

My experience is that tram machines are _very_ rarely out of order. As for
the station ones, well that's a different story....


> > 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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