Re: Tram Announcements: another Victorian election conspiracy theory

[cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au (Christopher_Martin GORDON)]

: Throughout this sorry thread, with all its pronouncements about the
: alleged unreasonableness of validating tickets on trams, people have
: made statements like "a tram is not a bus" (how profound) and "it might
: work on buses but not on trams".

: Will someone please coherently explain just IN WHAT WAYS a tram is so
: different from a bus as to make validation on a tram so unreasonable?

Quite simple, on a bus you board by the front door and validate your ticket
(mainly because the driver is watching you, and he/she makes sure you have
a valid ticket).  On a tram you board by any door (2 doors in the centre for
a W, 2 doors for Z1, Z2 and three doors for A, Z3, B) and no one is watching
you to validate your ticket, so most people just sit down, I don't know if
it is being lazy or what, but they don't.

Bus = board and driver makes sure you validate (front door, one at a time)
Tram = board and no one make you validate (any door, lots at a time).

Can I just ask are all these people asking questions about
validation and the difference between trams and buses in Melbourne?

Anyone in Melbourne that catches both trams and buses knows the difference, 
and there is a big difference in their use.  
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Chris Gordon
http://www.ecr.mu.oz.au/~cmgord