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

["Thomson Family" <thomson@bigpond.net.au>]

There is a position going at the DOI for a Transport System Performance
Analyst. Check it out at
http://www.doi.vic.gov.au/doi/internet/home.nsf/HeadingPagesDisplay/About+Us
Jobs@DOI?OpenDocument. The job description mentions preparing reports of
operational performance data for all the all the public transport providers.
I imagine it will have a lot to do with the Track Record publication.

So anyone who is at a loose end and wants to know more about the performance
of the public transport operators, why not give it a shot. But hurry,
aplications close Friday! You can send in online applications too.

Ross

"Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Mark Pearson" <markkoala@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> > I am from Sydney and I don't really understand how the multimodal system
> > works in Melb.
> >
> > But.... I paid $5.50 for an all day Zone 1 ticket.
> >
> > If the newagent gets 5%  ie. 27.5c
> > The Feds via GST get 10% - 50c
> > Ticket Printing & Distribution Costs - (who knows ??)
> >
> > I caught a train from Williamstown and the a tram to Fitzroy had a
coffee
> > and then went back again. Contribution to rail & tram was about $2.35
each
> > way. Great for me.. not much for them. If I catch a STA bus from
> Parramatta
> > to Macquarie Uni (about 10km) it cost $3.70 each way.
>
> If you're saying next time you're travelling in Melbourne that you'd like
to
> pay more, then feel free to buy some extra tickets, or ask at a staffed
> station where to make a donation :-)
>
> > Now that there are 2 rail companies and 2 tram companies, how do they
> figure
> > out who gets what?
> > Is that what the validating machines do?
> > Does the state government heavily subsidise all 4 companies?
> > Do they accurately trace each trip I made?
> > What happens when I get off at Williamstown station and there is no
gates
> or
> > way of checking tickets??
>
> They have no accurate way of working out where you go. The validators
cannot
> track where you go in the cases where you enter via a gated station, but
> exit via an ungated one.
>
> From time to time you will see various forms of surveys done - I recently
> saw teams of six people per platform, counting the numbers of people on
each
> train going through South Yarra and Richmond. I believe these figures are
> used as the basis for paying the companies.
>
>
> Daniel
> --
> Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
> dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au
> Melbourne public transport FAQ http://www.custard.net.au/melbtrans/
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