Canberra's 30 bus ticket inspectors issued just 24 fines this year

[davidc4430]

Canberra's 30 bus ticket inspectors issued just 24 fines this year

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-08/canberras-30-bus-ticket-checkers-issue-just-24-fines/9228558

you can only issue a ticket to someone who does the wrong thing. looks like the canberra comunity are law abiding.

ans so they should be, all those MPs and Public Servants, good honest people.

[zanadoo_56]

Actually I'm not at all surprised, having grown up in Canberra.

[lyndal1838]

It doesn't surprise me either.

It is a long time since I lived in Canberra but back then nobody used public transport.  Canberra was one of those cities where you needed a car to get around, especially if you lived in the outer suburbs.

The public transport was woeful.

[ecar3483]

It would have been 1976, after Mr Whitlam had left, and Mr Fraser had come into office.

We were told that there would have to be some changes - no more free trips on the school bus...

The fare would now be Ten Cents...

I remember the ticket inspectors...

I remember one of the kids I knew trying to prise open the back doors of the bus so that he could escape them, not having paid for a ticket... ha ha.

Back in those days, if the driver got lost then he'd refer to a big, fold out paper map.

Tell that to the young folk of today and they won't believe you... ha ha.

🙂

[lyndal1838]

Good guess ecar.   I lived on the Navy Base from January 1967 to June 1969.

There were only 2 or 3 busses between Canberra and Queanbeyan each morning and night and one in the middle of the day.

It was a nightmare trying to time the shopping to catch the only bus in the middle of the day.

[zanadoo_56]

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@ecar3483 wrote:

It would have been 1976, after Mr Whitlam had left, and Mr Fraser had come into office.

We were told that there would have to be some changes - no more free trips on the school bus...

The fare would now be Ten Cents...

I remember the ticket inspectors...

I remember one of the kids I knew trying to prise open the back doors of the bus so that he could escape them, not having paid for a ticket... ha ha.

Back in those days, if the driver got lost then he'd refer to a big, fold out paper map.

Tell that to the young folk of today and they won't believe you... ha ha.

🙂

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I used to ride my bicycle to school and on one occasion I discovered I had a flat tyre and with no time to fix it I decided to take the bus....something I never did for school.

So I trudged to the closest bus stop on Majura Ave and waited for the next school bus (or any bus really).  Soon one turned up and I was surprised to find I was the only passenger.  I soon discovered why - the driver had just come from the depot...and it was his first day on the job.....and he had NO idea where he was supposed to go!  So he asked me....and I had no idea either.  Talk about the blind leading the blind.

It was a school bus but no one else boarded it.  The driver didn't take my fare, he drove me straight to my school and off I got.  Decades later I still wonder sometimes what he did next, because he hadn't a clue (or even a map). 🙂