Re: Yarra Trams Article in Sunday Age

["Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au>]

heheh okay, there's no doubt I should have a ticket if I'm in a paid area
"premises for entry to which a ticket is required" - but I think there's
still some confusion if a station platform without barriers and without
"paid area" signs (eg my local station, Glenhuntly, where you don't even
have to pass validators to get onto the platform) is a paid area.

Certainly at any station where there is without doubt a paid area (eg any
city station) then the meeting point would have to be outside it. Equally,
if I was meeting someone off the train and saw CSEs there waiting to check
tickets, I'd wait outside just to be sure.

Cheers,


Daniel
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Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au
Melbourne public transport FAQ http://www.custard.net.au/melbtrans/



"Rail Roamer" <leadscout@one.net.au> wrote in message
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> Well you should have ticket but this is where the term discretion comes
in.
> If you did not have a ticket I certainly wouldn't book you even though
> legally you should.
> Hey well thats what it says in the Act.
> If I did and it went to court do you seriously think I would win?
> No way.
> Like I said that is where an authorised officer should use his/her
> discretion.
> If you said to me I'm not travelling on the train I'm meeting someone on
the
> platform I certainly wouldn't book you.
> However I would try to remain aware of my surrounds and if I did see you
> board the train.....guess what I'd approach and ask for your ticket. If
you
> could not prodice one, well then I'd have to think about it.
> So technically you should have one, well from a legal point anyway. But
> seriously I wouldn't book you if you were waiting for someone.
> Might be little harder at Flinders St though and I'd have to suggest you
> meet your party 'under clocks' so too speak.
>
> "Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote in message
> Zjvf6.834$tT3.7478@news-server.bigpond.net.au">news:Zjvf6.834$tT3.7478@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> >
> > "Rail Roamer" <leadscout@one.net.au> wrote in message
> > 3a7e3cf5_5@news01.one.net.au">news:3a7e3cf5_5@news01.one.net.au...
> > > Section 221 (3)
> > > Subject to sub-section (2), a person who makes a journey in a
carrigae,
> or
> > > is on land or premises for entry to which a ticket is required,
> > > without having in his possession a ticket that is valid for that
journey
> > or
> > > entry is guilty of an offence.
> >
> > Hey you'd probably know...
> >
> > Is a station platform, beyond the validators, but which does not have a
> > "Paid area" sign displayed, and has no physical ticket barriers, within
> the
> > paid area? eg Can I legally wait to meet someone, on a typical suburban
> > station platform without a ticket?
> >
> >
> > Daniel
> > --
> > Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
> > dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au
> > http://www.danielbowen.com/
> >
> >
>
>