Re: CityRail questions

[paulrw@xa2.com.au (paul)]

On Thu, 28 May 1998 23:46:53 GMT, rdulin@hotmail.com wrote:

>On my train to work this morning, there was a schoolboy
>sitting in front of me. All the seats were taken.
>
>A man got on, and proceeded to ask the boy to stand.
>The boy ignored him at first, but then the man asked
>the boy if he had paid full fare. The boy said no, and
>the man said that if he had not paid full fare, then
>he had to stand to give the seat to someone who had.
>
>The boy then left to stand in the vestibule, the man
>took the seat and proceeded to tell his fellow seated
>passengers what fun he had doing that.
>
>Was he correct in telling the boy he had to stand *because
>he had not paid full fare*?
>
>(Even if he was correct, I don't think it was very nice to
>gloat about hassling a young kid).
>
>I haven't seen anything which instructs concession fare
>travellers to vacate seats for full fare travellers.
>
>If his reason was correct, can you also make pensioners,
>railway employees and police stand because *they* haven't
>paid full fare?
>
>
>
>Richie
>(who pays full fare... well, I use a weekly ticket, so I
>guess that's not *technically* full fare, either)
>
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My understanding is that this situation applies where a school child
is travelling on a free school pass, but not when having paid any
fare, including child fare..

Paul
CityRail SM