Re: Privatised Government?

["Michael" <mk@netstra.com.au>]

Because while it is still under the control of the government which it is
now, they need something to spend their money on. Being a tramway company,
cars are really useful, they take all the money away from funding things
that benefit the service more, like new trams, and track extentions.

m.


Laurel Blume wrote in message <36E28F6C.29866CA5@ihug.com.au>...
>Travelling home late one night last week, I noticed what think was a VT
>Commodore with a small sticker on the front doors with `Swanston Trams'.
>
>Nothing unusual in that, of course, except that the car was carrying red
>government number plates.
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>If the system has been privatised, why retain the govt plates?
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>Andy B
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