Re: Re: Transport ticket system collapses

["Chris Downs" <cvdowns@ozemail.com.au>]

Unlike a bus where validation of the ticket can be relatively easily monitored
by the driver the same can't be done at stations without gates.  A bus driver
also has each passenger in close proximity for the duration of the journey,
there is no rail equivalent except perhaps on a single STA carriage train in
Adelaide.

That's aside from all gates being left open at gated stations or people being
waved through the manual gate.

Chris

Peter Degotardi <peterdegx@au1.ibm.com> wrote in message
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> Question: Why does State Rail persist with the  weekly, monthly, yearly
> etc. ticket.
> I usually buy a weekly, but there are times (due to the job) when I do
> this, and then
> find I have to go somewhere else for the week.
>
> Why don't we have a quantity of ride (eg 10 trips) ticket?
> Surely it can't be that hard to set up?
>
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> Technical Solutions Architect
> IBM Global services Australia
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