Re: Tram Announcements: another Victorian election conspiracy theory

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

: As I said before, I think having to validate already valid tickets at
: non-gated stations is silly. The only reason you should do it on a tram is
: to show that you have a valid ticket.

Show who?  The other passengers, they no longer talk to each other since
conductors were removed.  Another change once conductors were removed, but
that is beside the point.

: Much the same system as Melbourne - 2 hour tickets, daily tickets, weekly
: tickets. Each train carriage has validators, and they have to validate on
: boarding the train. They even gave plain-clothes police special tickets,
: because they were being told off as fare evaders because they did not
: validate (as police, they were entitled to free travel to and from work).
: There is a social thing in Adelaide about fare evasion.

So there is in Melbourne too, but the minority of people that do it get
away with it because others (like me) don't say anything.

: Neither - someone with a weekly ticket with 3 days left to go validates
: because they have to.

I validate my Monthly each day because I need to.  I need to so I can open
the gates at the other end.  If it wasn't for that then I wouldn't bother
till I go through the gates at the other end, but I have still validated.

: There is a need because the tram companies need the statistics for revenue
: allocation and route planning purposes.

That is what they keep telling us and the other thing they keep telling
us is that the service level will be maintained.  So apart from knowing
the number of people using the service then it realy won't change much.
It will just be another lot of statistics which will never be used to give
a better service.

: See above.

With refernece to the Customer Service people they wouldn't know if you
validated your ticket or not, and what makes it worse is they don't care.

: DaveP



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Chris Gordon
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