Re: Metcard statistics. Does it even happen?

["SunshineCat" <ellen316@NOSPAMprimus.com.au>]

there are ways of getting through barriers even if they are closed without a
ticket (raising your knee between the gap of the 2 sides. this will open
automatically)
Michael Kurkowski wrote in message
<8E5A82296telstraNews@vic.news.telstra.net>...
>Hi,
>
>Late this week, I travelled on my usual train to work (one hour earlier
>these days but) and was confronted by a young man with a folder and a
>palmtop PC. That's right, a ticket surveyer.
>
>For a bit of background, these people were originally hired by the
>government (who for those who don't know, used to run our railways here in
>Vic many moons ago) to gather statistics for the paper ticketing system.
>i.e. what ticket someone bought, to go where, etc...
>
>We are now 99% over to a ticketing system that is supposed to be better,
>wash the cat, feed the dishes and <shock>gather statistics</shock>. If the
>ticketing system really does gather statistics, why do they bother sending
>people out, more recently with palm top computers to key in details?
>
>It is evident that people do not want these people stopping next to them (I
>honestly don't care, just keep the roaming mormons away, please!). After
>having a small chat to the young man (After saying how i do not wish to
>participate in the paper based survey) he said that what I said was
>probably the nicest thing anyone had said to him all day, and how he is
>made to do 11 hour shifts at most times.
>
>I think the perpretrators of this evil ticketing system have reached an all
>time low, in my opinion. Why else would they hire these people if the
>machines could gather the required statistics as claimed? It's not like
>people don't validate *AT TRAIN STATIONS*. At Glenroy *TRAIN STATION* on an
>average morning I see approximately 75% of people validate.
>
>Regards
>Michael "Please Explain"