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

[Vaughan Williams <ender2000@my-deja.com>]

Free transport for a special occason like Xmas day and NYE is all well
and good, but the services that are being provided are lousy (esp on
Xmas day). Most buses aren't running at all. Trains and trams on a
sunday timetable.

NYE isn't much better. there are no late night buses except the night
riders (which aren't free anyway). How are people going to get home
from the station?

And the trains are only running away from the city - there are no
citybound trains taking passengers. This is mad - running trains from
the city and then sending them back empty!

In article <L4F74.231$zR.1227@ozemail.com.au>,
  "John Kerley" <deaftech@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>
> Christopher_Martin GORDON <cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au> wrote in message
> 83n0u5$m4k$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU">news:83n0u5$m4k$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU...
> >
> > 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
>
>


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