Re: [Melb] Public to be trained to buy tickets from shops rather than ticket machines

[spammers-will-die@austux.net (Jeremy Lunn)]

In article <3b270ac5$0$25467$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au>,
Mark Pearson wrote:
> Now that there are 2 rail companies and 2 tram companies, how do they figure
> out who gets what?

They get a set price for each passenger.

> Is that what the validating machines do?

Yes.  But I think they more or less estimate how many passengers they
get because people are reluctant to validate on each trip.

> Does the state government heavily subsidise all 4 companies?

Yes.

> Do they accurately trace each trip I made?

Not sure what you mean by that but I assume they use it for statistical
purposes (hopefully they work out if they need to run more trains at
certain times and things like that).

> What happens when I get off at Williamstown station and there is no gates or
> way of checking tickets??

Well I take it you originally got on there.  So they might just make an
assumption that when you entered flinders st station or wherever that
you were going back to willy.

> If this has been covered on this newsgroup before, I apologise.

It probably has.

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