Re: SLR Ticketing

Bill Bolton (billbolton@REMOVE-TO-EMAIL.acslink.net.au)
Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:01:09 GMT

ajwright@ozemail.com.au (Ashley Wright) wrote:

> How is the SLR going to enforce ticketing on the new system. By my
> reconning the only place to validate a ticket is on the ticket
> machines.

>From my observations today of groups of people at several stops
gathered around ticket machines trying to figure out how to buy a
ticket, the issue of ticket sales will have to be resolved before the
issue of enforcement comes into play!

I ended up with a "machine" ticket (no indication of value) manually
sold by an SLR employee at Central which simply had the date rubber
stamped on the back of it. Said SLR employee was selling identical
tickets to everyone who paid a fare, no matter what the fare was!

Cheers,

Bill

Bill Bolton billbolton@acslink.net.au
Sydney, Australia