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The latest offering from the NSW State government on our public transport is centred on the chest beating of the Premier about how she has been congratulated for intending to purchase the London based “Oyster” ticketing system. As reported in the SMH (24th May) when the NSW Premier stood in Parliament during question time on Wednesday [...] Another day, another dollar wasted on a ticketing system. Here we go again. The NSW State Government are launching themselves into another billion dollar ($1.2 Billion to be exact) fiasco. $1.2 BILLION to be spent on a TICKETING SYSTEM!!!! That’s almost half the cost of running railcorp for an entire year (07/08 figures). In 07/08 [...] Finally in Australia we are starting to have the debate. This is not rocket science. The only argument against FPT seems to be that we don’t have enough trains and buses to cope. Well put simply, that is something that can be addressed by implementing incremental changes to rolling stock, buses and ferries. Free public transport [...] |
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