Re: Tram Announcements: another Victorian election conspiracy theory

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Christopher_Martin GORDON <cmgord@ecr.mu.oz.au> wrote in message
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> : 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.

Only because of sheer and utter laziness on the part of Melburnians.

DaveP