Re: [Melb] Free Travel in Melb/Vic on Xmas Day & New Years Eve

["John Kerley" <deaftech@ozemail.com.au>]

Christopher_Martin GORDON <cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au> wrote in message
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> I don't realy care, I just don't like the games the government/opposition
> play.  As far as I am concerned it was the current governments idea,
> because if the current opposition had the idea why didn't they do it last
> year?
>
> I hope they do this every year now.  Xmas and New Years should be free,
> just like most sporting events now the Public Transport to/from is free
> (well the sporting event pays for it, as for this free transport it
> comes out of the Bayside/Hillside/Yarra/Swanston/Vline budgets, but
> hand on why is the government giving these companies money, I though
> now it is not government run, the government doesn't give the
> operators money.  I think we have been tricked here)
>
Fortunately the money is not coming from the taxpayer but from the
promotional budget that the train operating companies pay to the PTC for
overall promotions.

Providing free transport for the GP(General Public, that is, not that other
GP!) is certainly a much better way of promoting public transport than
giving handouts to Jeff's mates in the PR industry which has been the
practice for the last seven years.

Cheers,

John Kerley