Re: [Melb] Ticket machines 'overused'

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

"Jeremy Lunn" <spammers-will-die@austux.net> wrote in message
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> In article <3B417557@MailAndNews.com>, Vaughan Williams wrote:
> > accepted on trams and buses). For periodicals, its not practical to sell
> > these
> > on trams or buses so people should have the option of buying from a
train
> > station, a retail outlet, or ordering over the phone (or the net).
>
> I don't see why it's not practical to sell daily tickets onboard trams
> though.

It was purely a political decision. If they had decided to sell dailies on
board trams, it would have simplified the construction and maintenance of
the machines, because the tram machines would have been identical to the
small railway station machines.


Daniel
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Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
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