Re: Fares - Sydney vs Melbourne

["FRISCÉ Theatre Co. (Bryan Cullis)" <rabonzo@primus.com.au>]

Michael Walker <walker@hotkey.net.au> wrote in message
933771104.609813@diddley.primus.com.au">news:933771104.609813@diddley.primus.com.au...
> I believe bus contracts now stipulate
> that a distance based system be available as well as the Metcard system (I
> remember reading in a contemporary magazine that when National Bus
tendered
> for the Metbus Doncaster routes, they tendered based on only the Met
> ticketing system and were not happy to have to rewrite their tender to
> include a distance based ticketing system. This may account for why it is
> cheaper in most cases to buy a Metcard instead of their section based
> tickets).

That's fine and dandy, but NBC still haven't installed validators yet, and
don't sell metcards