Re: {nsw} When to change trains

[Dave Proctor <david@sd3.mailbank.com>]

On Tue, 29 May 2001 11:57:55 +1000, "Peter Parker"
<parkerp@alphalink.com.au> wrote:

>
>David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
>news:tv34ht0952rqt88jmh3cpft75ek5h11pn3@4ax.com...
>
>> Where you pay the same amount to go 5 kms through 2 zones as you do to
>> go 50 kilometres through 2 zones?   Sounds a bit unfair.
>
>Where abouts does this occur?  On the Melbourne rail system, you need a Zone
>123 for
>trips like E. Camberwell - Ringwood, Murrumbeena - Noble Park & Glenhuntly -
>Seaford.
>These are all distances of considerably more than 5km.
>
>Of greater unfairness are local trips like Murrumbeena to Moorabbin, which
>need a Zone 12
>ticket, whereas to travel all the way to Williamstown or Glenroy can be done
>on a Zone 1.

Broadmeadows to Epping requires a Zone 1/2, the same as Murrmbeena to
Moorabbin - yet the distances are greatly dissimiliar. That is where
the inequity lies.

Dave