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Just a PSA! Still makes it incredibly cheap to travel long distances in Victoria.
New fares from Jan 1:
| Weekday | Weekend | |
|---|---|---|
| Full fare - Daily maximum | $10.60 | $7.20 |
| Concession - Daily maximum | $5.30 | $ 3.60 |
PSA - Victorian Adult Myki Fares to Increase $0.60 from January 1 2024
HamBoi69 on 23/12/2023 - 08:33
Last edited 23/12/2023 - 08:37
Last edited 23/12/2023 - 08:37
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No, they remained seated
As a NSW resident Im devastated
Queenslanders are at the mercy of Kinetic, a bus company funded with Canadian pension funds.
Requires a hyper complex app that perhaps has a 700 page instruction manual.
Many stops have digital displays and the busses have GPS on board, 2 separate comms systems, a since 9 years not functioning card reader, security guards to ensure robbers have free privacy protection and working folks coughs up all outgoings.
You sit an a urine soaked coloured metal bench, gasp at the counting down display and find underpaid drivers drove the wrong way, never turn up let alone if they do, carry no change due to perpetual holdups.
Amen!
If only an increase in fare price correlated with a decrease in cancelled services.
Typical Labor government.
What are you talking about? The Labor government does not run any public transport services, they are all run by independent operators over which the government can influence through contracts and budgets, but not directly control.
Government can still pressure the operators by cutting funding for example when they are consistently cancelling services. At the moment the amount of services cancelled is ridiculous.
Alternatively, if infrastructure is the issue government can fund repairs on dodgy tracks, etc.
Government can still pressure the operators by cutting funding for example when they are consistently cancelling services.
This is already being done. For example, if you're referring to train services, you can see the agreement with Metro Trains Melbourne here: https://www.tenders.vic.gov.au/contract/view?id=63987
Under the Operations Module, on page 37, persistent deviations away from the daily timetable (which includes unplanned cancellations, as per quantity E), will lead to either a Call-in-event, breach, or termination event.
At the moment the amount of services cancelled is ridiculous.
Sure, I agree completely.
Alternatively, if infrastructure is the issue government can fund repairs on dodgy tracks, etc.
And which party traditionally invests in rail infrastructure?
And which party traditionally invests in rail infrastructure?
We would have an additional $380m to invest had Labor not botched the Olympic Games.
@WoodYouLikeSomeCash: You mean the Commonwealth Games? That was supported by both major parties, so how is that the fault of the ALP?
Don't you ever feel that it's a little sad that you feel this overwhelming urge to look at everything through this prism of "Labor bad", many things are just not political. You sure the trains will be running better if another party was in power?
incredibly cheap to travel long distances
But it is incredibly expensive to travel short distances.
Short distances require nothing more than Kmart thongs and shorts. Shirt optional.
I was so glad they made it free travel within the CBD!
Makes it easier to get around the CBD to meet people for lunch without having to pay almost $5 to go a few blocks to the other end of the city. On rainy or super hot days, the free tram from home to office is good too!100% agree and insane. This impacts local business and increases isolation and ppl retaining cars they either shouldn't be driving still or that they wouldn't need as much otherwise.
Bring back short trips.
OMG
It's all Dan's fault
(profanity) this state.
I caught the bus once and this chap got off and started walking away some distance, the bus was waiting because it was a bit ahead of schedule I suppose. He had dropped a pouch of tobacco when getting off the bus and someone else noticed and started looking anxious. He finally got up, picked up the pouch and stepped out the door and started screaming "you dropped your pouch!". The chap was quite a distance from the bus now and didn't hear so he kept shouting louder and louder "you dropped your pouch!".
Just amazes me that poorest among us can have the most empathy for their fellow man. I can't imagine a rich person at the state opera shouting down the street "you dropped your pouch!" and feeling great anxiety over a stranger going without their smokes.
Did he get the pouch??
Sadly, no ðŸ˜
😢
Just amazes me that poorest among us can have the most empathy for their fellow man. I can't imagine a rich person at the state opera shouting down the street "you dropped your pouch!" and feeling great anxiety over a stranger going without their smokes.
How do you know that the person who picked up the pouch and yelled after the guy was poor, and not rich?
True 20 years ago while working up near Dargo had a good chat to this nice old fellow his old thread bare pants he had sewed up with some string and was driving a old volvo.
Talked to one of my coworkers later and found out the old guy was supposed to be worth 20 million with extensive real estate holdings in the gippsland region.
Maybe they should start sacking Ticket Inspectors to help with that Debt.
Probably to help pay for this 'Debt' (The Victorian government has agreed to pay Commonwealth Games bodies $380m in compensation after cancelling the 2026 event)
BUS REPLACEMENTS !!!!!
So concessions did not get up?