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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> Fact: People in Melbourne validate at train stations just like people
> in other cities.  No problems now.

People in other cities do not have to validate at stations if the ticket is
already valid - they may have to insert into automatic gates to gain access
to the station though.

People in Adelaide have to validate their ticket when they board a train -
in the same way Melbourne tram passengers are supposed to.

> Fact: It is the trams in Melbourne where people don't validate.  Other
> cities with no problems have no trams.

Because the people cannot be bothered, being too obstinate to do so.

> What would you do (apart from making eveyone board by the front door,
> while the driver watched like buses) to our trams to make more
> people validate?

Have customer service people roaming the network, to do revenue protection,
customer assistance, etc. - much like now, but a lot more of them. If the
problem is a you say, that people do not do it because there is noone there
to make them (hence further proving it is obstinacy) then this should have
some effect.

> (I will wait for your answer and then tell the Swanston and Yarra trams,
> I am sure they can't work it out yet either, I can't)

Where they will ignore them in the order they are received.

DaveP