Re: It's Sold! (The letter to the minister of transport)

["The Man" <rodo@alphalink.com.au>]

The reply you woill get will go something like

Dear Sir,
    Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah
Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah
Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah
Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah
Blah, We don't really care. Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah
Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah , We dont
have the Money, Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah
Blah Blah Blah Blah.

Yours Faithfully
Some Political Fatcat



M.G.Smith wrote in message ...
>***sorry, had to go off line for a while to write it, but here it is:
>
>
>Dear Minister,
>I have just returned from a holiday in your beautiful state of Victoria.
>While visiting, I needed to use your Met services to get from my motel, The
>Princes Park Motor Inn, to Belgrave, to ride on Puffing Billy.
>I followed the clear instructions in your "fares and travel guide" and went
>to buy my 1+2+3 Daily ticket needed to travel from the 7-11 store adjacent
>to the motel, In Carlton North.
>However they had none in stock.
>As I needed a ticket to travel, I had to buy a 2 hour 1+2+3 zone ticket
from
>the tram, and buy 2 hour ticket from Belgrave, as trams do not have daily
>tickets.
>I find this very unfair as when the Met had conductors on the trams, they
>could sell you a daily ticket, and buying two, 2 hour tickets, costs more
>than buying a daily ticket.
>As I work for CityRail here in Sydney, we have a customer service policy in
>force where if the ticket vending machine (when the ticket window is
closed)
>can not sell you the ticket you want due to malfunction or vandalism, the
>customer can travel to the other end without a valid ticket and buy one
>there.
>The ticket vending machine on your trams do not sell daily tickets and I am
>to buy a 2 hour ticket, as I said is unfair, and not very good customer
>service.
>I verified this rule with a ticket inspector with Swanston Trams.
>As part of having a customer friendly public transport system, I ask for
any
>one of the following changes:
>1. Install the facility to buy a daily ticket on board trams;
>2. Make it law that all Metcard sellers must stock all types of Metcard
>tickets;
>3. Make it law that you can travel without a valid ticket until such time
>that you can get the ticket required.
>I leave this to your decision, to which rule(s) you apply.
>
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