Legally you'd have had them, anyway. Look how close "Kev Kevison" got with his "I've only got notes" ruse, and the train stations don't have "Coin Only" in big letters on the front.
Still, it's their intent and methodology that we're discussing and there _are_ nice ones out there as well.
We should buy you a bunch of dailies, or maybe one of those new-fangled five-packs. As a PT Anonymous service!
Ya'll mean Mr Lev Cemetary toss-pot, the man everybody loves to hate *hee*? yeah, he got a long way with that one, shame it was such a publicity stunt, if he'd been genuine it would have been marvellous.
I can afford the stupid things, but when I buy them in advance I inevitably lose the fuckers. *grin* maybe I should get a five pack & I dunno, surgically attach it to the lining of my bag, wouldn't lose it then!
Me dear woman, the very fact that you say it's "wrong" points to one of the worst sheepfulnesses of your sweet but oh far too lame to credit Little Switzerland nation! On what "moral" scoreboard is it "wrong"? I'm a total believer in honouring contracts, but remember, this is PUBLIC transport, regulated, erm, smegulated by shitearse capricious little civil surlyvants (or in the case of the likes of Connex IIRC, ex-civil surlyvants) who throw darts at a Melb map and say "*There* is where we'll declare a zone change"...and then put in mini-machines that don't take notes, so even when a person wants to play it their way but hasn't the right change, said person is faced with a narrow set of choices, none of which gets anywhere near the theoretical reason for the existence of "public" transport in the first place...grrr arrgh. I suspect they could probably make all zone 1/2/3 tickets the same low-as-possible price and still turn a profit and not leave any customers feeling ripped off one way or the other. And it's not as if you make a
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Thanks m'dear, I agree with the abolishment of the Zone system, I'd rather pay an extra 20c for my zone 1 tickets than have to take a $5 price hike (and masses of stuffing about) everytime I ride outside the boundaries by one stop. They actually make huge profits off the tickets now - they've just invested so much money in the Big New Shiny *cough ugly plastic cough* trains & trams scheme that they are still running at a loss... government had to bail out Connex a few months ago with several million just to keep the PT running *rolls eyes* idiot government selling off services to private companies *mutters*.
er but that's a whole 'nother rant ain't it. *sheepish grin*
You might consider that there's also some sort of conservation-of-fare-payments going on. I only found out last week that I could have been doing a certain journey on a Zone 2 ticket, instead of paying for a 1+2 or walking to a different station and buying a Zone 1. I figure Connex has made at least an extra $250 off me in the past year alone - surely that entitles my friends to a few discounts :P
ahh I'm guessing you start the journey in a cross-over zone then, gotta love/hate those, their attempt at making it fairer on those who live on the borderline between two zones, confuses the bejesus out of tourists "so if I'm going this way I can go two more stations on a zone one ticket, but if I was coming from the other way I'd have to have a zone two ticket for those two stations and not a zone one provided I stop before that little yellow line ends? But? What? WHICH ZONE AM I IN???" *wheeeee!* And they so NEVER advertise the way that shit works, had to explain the theory to a bunch of confused co-erkers recently - they couldn't work out why the line on the train map was half blue half yellow.
Ah yes. *stops ranting* Yeah, they've ripped me off often enough (ticket machines taking money and not giving tickets mostly) that I shouldn't care anyway, by the stats most of us regulars are entitled to a free ride occasionally...
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Still, it's their intent and methodology that we're discussing and there _are_ nice ones out there as well.
We should buy you a bunch of dailies, or maybe one of those new-fangled five-packs. As a PT Anonymous service!
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I can afford the stupid things, but when I buy them in advance I inevitably lose the fuckers. *grin* maybe I should get a five pack & I dunno, surgically attach it to the lining of my bag, wouldn't lose it then!
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er but that's a whole 'nother rant ain't it. *sheepish grin*
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You might consider that there's also some sort of conservation-of-fare-payments going on. I only found out last week that I could have been doing a certain journey on a Zone 2 ticket, instead of paying for a 1+2 or walking to a different station and buying a Zone 1. I figure Connex has made at least an extra $250 off me in the past year alone - surely that entitles my friends to a few discounts :P
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And they so NEVER advertise the way that shit works, had to explain the theory to a bunch of confused co-erkers recently - they couldn't work out why the line on the train map was half blue half yellow.
Ah yes. *stops ranting* Yeah, they've ripped me off often enough (ticket machines taking money and not giving tickets mostly) that I shouldn't care anyway, by the stats most of us regulars are entitled to a free ride occasionally...
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