Re: Tram Announcements: another Victorian election conspiracy theory

[Ben Thomas <ben@unico.com.au>]

Roderick Smith wrote:
> 
> The whole function is pointless.  The ticket is valid, and does not need to
> be checked.  All this does is slow down boarding.
> This stupid idea of constant checking is for management convenience, not
> customer convenience.  Allocation of revenue is better done via statistics.
> 

So using that logic, you would argue that you would not need to take your ticket
out of your pocket to show a conductor because you know you have a valid ticket.

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