Re: Tram Announcements: another Victorian election conspiracy theory

["Ronald BESDANSKY" <ronbest@bigpond.com>]

Weekly tickets in both NSW & Vic were once stamped M/F or L/G
(lady/gentleman) so the wife couldn't use hubby's ticket to do the shopping
on the weekend or v.v.
Rgds
Ron BESDANSKY
Ian Jelf <ian@bluebadge.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
YvjCxDBEAC43EwEG@bluebadge.demon.co.uk">news:YvjCxDBEAC43EwEG@bluebadge.demon.co.uk...
> In article <37dff9eb@news.iprolink.co.nz>, Dave McL <davemcl@AXE*THISipr
> olink.co.nz> writes
> >This might be "sinister" if the ticket actually recorded the identity of
> >the holder.
> The strangest ticket issuing system I've ever come across is that on the
> tram and bus network of Augsburg in Germany.   There the automatic
> ticket issuing machines ask you your *sex* before issuing you with a day
> ticket!
>
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