CityRail questions

[rdulin@hotmail.com]

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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