Re: 10 x 2-hours metcards

[dbowen@custard.net.#SPAMTRAP#.au (Daniel Bowen)]

"Mike Alexander" <malex@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>Why do they have to dream up stupid names for everything. If I'm not
>mistaken:

>* A "Metcard" is a "ticket".
>* A "Metcard 10" is a "10 x 2-hour ticket".
>* A "Short trip" is a "2-section" ticket.

>Why not call them what they are, and save the casual user from trying to
>figure out if, for example, a trip from the city to Hawthorn is a "short
>trip" or not.

Absolutely right. Obviously the marketing people have got to it.

It's similar with the off peak savers and so on. With virtually no staff on the
system, how are people meant to know what these obscure tickets are, unless they
look around for a poster explaining the fares - and you don't see these on
trams, and at most stations they are *inside* the fare paid area, around the
corner from the machine, on the platform!

During the Grand Prix I was on a tram listening to people trying to work out if
a trip from Elsternwick to the track was a Short Trip or not (which it isn't,
it's 3 sections). Maybe the machines on trams should have a notice saying "Not
sure which ticket to buy? Ask the driver!". Might get the drivers talking to
people again.

>For some strange reason, only in Zone 1. I guess the 2-hour tickets are
>proportionally cheaper in the other zones, that they figure not many people
>would buy a Rail+2 type ticket. But it sure would be useful to get across
>zone boundaries. Once again, I ask, why the inconsistency.

Given the zone boundary overlaps, I don't think a Rail+2 would get you over a
boundary. But it would still be 20 cents cheaper than a zone 2 or 3 two hour
ticket.


Daniel
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