Re: Tram Announcements: another Victorian election conspiracy theory

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

Remember,
Many people's tickets have already been validated.  There should be no need
to poke them into a machine again.  Not everbody who isn't poking the card
into a slot is a fare evader.

-- 
Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Christopher_Martin GORDON <cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au> wrote in article 
> : That is a total copout - buses have one entrance only, and people still
> : validate without unduly holding up the bus. With more entrances on a
tram,
> : there is NO reason why the same could not apply (except, of course,
that
> : Melburnians are slower than Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide people - hey,
> : there is an argument I will listen to!)
> I don't give a crap about buses, people do not and will not validate
> on trams for whatever reason.  That is why you have conductors.
> Does Sydney have conductors of someone on the tram to check/sell
> tickets?  Does Adelaide have conductors?
> You will never change people, just have conductors, sell daily tickets.,
> Trams are much better that buses, to load a lot faster and are much
better
> than buses in the inner city.  Just spend one day in Melbourne watch
> the number of people that catch trams a few stops to get to/from the
> train station to their work/university.  At lunchtime people go out
again,
> do you have people in Sydney that catch buses for 2,3,4 city blocks?
> Trams are very different to buses, maybe almost 40 years with out trams
> in Sydney has made people forget how much better trams are than buses.
> Say what you want, come up with all your reasons but people will validate
> on buses because of the driver watching them.  If you left Sydney people
> to have a choice of validation then it would be the same as Melbourne
> only 10% would validate.