Re: Metcard

["Johann Fan" <yags@geocities.com>]

Chris Gordon wrote in message <350B9361.8F3697E5@ugrad.unimelb.edu.au>...
>Johann Fan wrote:
>> How much time was left on the ticket? until 1st April??
>
>Yes.
>I bought it on the 1st of March (Sunday) and first Validated it on the
Monday
>(2nd) so it went till the 1st of April.
>
>I will get a refund of the portion of the ticket back.  So I used 11/31
days So
>I think that  I get back 20/31 of the $62 I paid.
>So it will work out I will save about $2 for the 5 weeks and 4 days I
travel
>till Easter
>(One Monthly + 12 days (at Monthly price) + one 2 hour ticket, as posed to
one
>monthly + one weekly + 4 dailies)

Thanx for that

>> How many people validate their ticket when they get on a tram anyway???
>> Especially if its full or even when its nearly empty.
>
>When University firsts started none, But now there is about 1/2 the tram
>validating.  Maybe less when the tram is full.  I think other people do it
>because everyone else does.  Now even people buy tickets from the machines,
some
>wait till a W class comes because they want a daily or have a $5 note.

I guess some people who see other people validating will validate as well!

>The day I lost my ticket I caught a W class tram.  The conductor didn't
bother
>checking tickets till after La Trobe St.
>
>
>Maybe they should install one of those big station validates at "Melbourne
>University Terminus"

They need them at major intersections in the city as well (ie.
Bourke/Swanston, Swanston/Latrobe (Melb. Central), etc... )
cheers
Johann
>
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>Chris Gordon
>cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au
>http://www.ecr.mu.oz.au/~cmgord