Re: Metcard Validation

[sthyer@anatomy.unimelb.edu.au (Stuart Thyer)]

As I understand it, the way the ticket money will ultimately be divided up
among  the 2 train systems, 2 tram systems and countless bus operators is
that when you travel on ANY different part of the system, so the machine
knows a journey has taken place.

ie.  Get on a bus, buy ticket, validate, the bus company gets it's share. 
Then get on the train and validate and the train operator gets its share. 
If you don't validate, then your journey is not recorded as having
happened and you are not recorded on the system as having travelled,
therefore the train company does not get money for having you trravel.

As for it being a legal requirement to revalidate every single time, I
don't know, but that is why the station officer would have wanted you to
validate so as to show you travelled.

Gee, why doesn't someone come up with the bright idea of amalgamating all
these bodies therefore it doesn't matter who gets what 'cos its all the
one organisation.

or was that called the Met??? ;-)

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