Re: Regulation 206 [Was: Rod Speed]

[Seppo Renfors <srenfors@!nojunk!adelaide.on.net>]

WhaleOilBeefHooked wrote:
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> Seppo Renfors <srenfors@!nojunk!adelaide.on.net> wrote in message
> 37ef4f48@duster.adelaide.on.net">news:37ef4f48@duster.adelaide.on.net...
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> > In relation to the ticket "validation" issue. I think you need to simply
> > look at it with ordinary common sense. The purpose of it is to actually
> > "invalidate" the ticket so it cannot be used again, if a single fare
> > ticket. Multifare tickets, it is a count-down to nil. Not to do so
> > obviously is an attempt at getting a ride for nothing because it could be
> > reused later if not "validated". Therefor not to have a "validated ticket"
> > whilst on the transport is to not have a valid ticket. To have a an
> > un-validated ticket outside the areas requiring validation is a totally
> > mute point, of no interest. Never having used such in Australia, I'm not
> > familiar with them here but it takes no Philadelphia Lawyer to work out
> the
> > purpose.
> 
> But the real purpose of "validating" tickets in Victoria is so that revenue
> can be apportioned between the two rail companies and the two tram
> companies. They have some formula in place based on the numbers of
> passengers they carry.
> 
> The regulation clearly states that a ticket requiring machine validation
> must be validated if an operable machine is available.
> 
> BUT - here is the rub. If a daily ticket is already validated for that day,
> does it have to be inserted into the machine on the tram again? Some say it
> is already valid, so it does not. Others (including myself) say that a
> strict interpretation of the regulation MUST conclude that validation is
> necessary on each and every trip.

Hmmmm.... I would agree with you. It clearly is a "multifare" ticket if you
can use more than one transport on the same ticket. Therefor each time it
has to be validated.
> 
> Over to the REAL lawyers.
> 
> DaveP

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