The Perth Thread

[Kram]

I find it's easier just to buy a ticket before jumping on the train.

 

[Borry]

Got caught out four years ago for forgetting to tag off my Smartrider on a Friday night. Went to tag on the next morning (when I was really tagging off) and copped a $100 fine for not tagging on from a lady who looked like she was on a power trip. Very easy mistake to do given many stations are not gated here.

 

[Kram]

Got caught out four years ago for forgetting to tag off my Smartrider on a Friday night. Went to tag on the next morning (when I was really tagging off) and copped a $100 fine for not tagging on from a lady who looked like she was on a power trip. Very easy mistake to do given many stations are not gated here.

Being used to buying a ticket I always bloody forget to tag off with those things.

 

[Teriyakicat]

Got caught out four years ago for forgetting to tag off my Smartrider on a Friday night. Went to tag on the next morning (when I was really tagging off) and copped a $100 fine for not tagging on from a lady who looked like she was on a power trip. Very easy mistake to do given many stations are not gated here.

Surely that would show up as a mistake and your fine would be withdrawn?

 

[Silent Alarm]

It will just end up on the unpaid fines registry which could result in drivers licence suspension - it will also of course go to a debt collector and accrue extra charges

Don't know if it would be worth the hassle for a lousy $100 fine

I don't have a driver's licence though and what's the go with debt collecting? How can they track me down when the address was fake and I'm not on the voting registry et al here.

A hunge is a fair bit of cash for a student in saving-mode.

And I did buy a ticket, I just lost the stub (got off at City West because I was being a campaigner) and couldn't produce it. Just a costly mistake.

What's a good and fair thing to write to them? Plenty of people say first offences are pretty easy to get away with.

 

[chunkylover]

If you wanted too see a microcosm of the utter shitness and selfishness of some Perth drivers you needed to be at the Belvoir Amphitheater after the Kooks gig last night. 2000 cars + farm paddock + no traffic controllers + only 3 exits. 2 extremes, most happy to wait and merge and others just doing their own thing overtaking 40 cars and being expected to be let in. Crazy

 

[Teriyakicat]

The Lib/Nat government has done a pretty good job overall. It's very easy to criticise our political leaders - especially when the sense of them being a new government is gone.

But one thing that gets my goat is the council amalgamations. I am still amazed that there seems to be so little concern about the City of Canning disappearing, and the circumstances that have surrounded it.

How convenient for Coles too - they have taken this opportunity to put forward their request to turn the High Road Tavern into a Coles. No community consultation, but it's already got approval. No mayor for two years, the man who replaced the mayor sacked because he disagreed with the City being swallowed up...

I was calling Barnett an "Emperor" morefor the way he seems to make decisions against the will of the people- an example being bringing in Sunday trading and extended trading hours after seeing it defeated (60% to 40%) at a referendum only a few years earlier. I don't think the Libs/Nats have done a bad job.

 

[Off The Couch]

I don't have a driver's licence though and what's the go with debt collecting? How can they track me down when the address was fake and I'm not on the voting registry et al here.

A hunge is a fair bit of cash for a student in saving-mode.

And I did buy a ticket, I just lost the stub (got off at City West because I was being a campaigner) and couldn't produce it. Just a costly mistake.

What's a good and fair thing to write to them? Plenty of people say first offences are pretty easy to get away with.

You asked about the possible outcomes and I gave them. the only reason I know is because the number of outstanding debts was being discussed by the minister in the media only about a week ago.

Run the gauntlet, as you say they don't really have the information required to catch up with you.

 

[Nothing]

I don't have a driver's licence though and what's the go with debt collecting? How can they track me down when the address was fake and I'm not on the voting registry et al here.

A hunge is a fair bit of cash for a student in saving-mode.

And I did buy a ticket, I just lost the stub (got off at City West because I was being a campaigner) and couldn't produce it. Just a costly mistake.

What's a good and fair thing to write to them? Plenty of people say first offences are pretty easy to get away with.

If you are on the freo line you say you got on at city west. Likewise the eastern lines and mciver. They cant do anything then.

 

[Underdog]

If you wanted too see a microcosm of the utter shitness and selfishness of some Perth drivers you needed to be at the Belvoir Amphitheater after the Kooks gig last night. 2000 cars + farm paddock + no traffic controllers + only 3 exits. 2 extremes, most happy to wait and merge and others just doing their own thing overtaking 40 cars and being expected to be let in. Crazy

Yeah, I saw Missy Higgins and Tim Rogers there a number of years back and getting out of that place is absolutely woeful. It's a great venue but the hassles of getting in and out has turned me off since.

 

[Silent Alarm]

If you are on the freo line you say you got on at city west. Likewise the eastern lines and mciver. They cant do anything then.

Because there's no ticket booth there or what?

Cheers.

 

[Underdog]

Because there's no ticket booth there or what?

Cheers.

Perhaps it's free travel between the stations like its free to catch a bus down the terrace.

I'd imagine you'd still need a ticket from that station though

 

[bok_party]

I remember about 4/5 years ago, I got pinged for not having a smartrider. I had purchased a student ticket, which I was yet he decided to fine me because I didn't have a smartrider despite showing my student card.

It's a flawed system. If I rarely use public transport and I just want to use it for a one off, i hae to buy a smartrider which is ten bucks or so, when I should only be able to buy one ticket at 2 bucks.

 

[Silent Alarm]

In all honesty I think the Transperth payment system is really good.

There are tickets for tourists as well as cards. You can charge your card or buy a ticket when you're on the bus or where you get the train (as opposed to 7-Elevens and every fourth or fifth station). There don't seem to be many glitches and the whole thing is pretty pain free and idiot proof.

 

[The_Reaper]

In all honesty I think the Transperth payment system is really good.

There are tickets for tourists as well as cards. You can charge your card or buy a ticket when you're on the bus or where you get the train (as opposed to 7-Elevens and every fourth or fifth station). There don't seem to be many glitches and the whole thing is pretty pain free and idiot proof.

Melbourne on the other hand was confusing as ****. Especially since you can't buy tickets on a tram and have to go to a 7/11 (which makes absolutely no sense to me).

 

[Spirit Level]

6152 rep repppppp

What suburb?

I'm on the edge of manning/como

 

[The Speaker]

I remember about 4/5 years ago, I got pinged for not having a smartrider. I had purchased a student ticket, which I was yet he decided to fine me because I didn't have a smartrider despite showing my student card.

It's a flawed system. If I rarely use public transport and I just want to use it for a one off, i hae to buy a smartrider which is ten bucks or so, when I should only be able to buy one ticket at 2 bucks.

?

You can buy tickets all you like. You don't need a SmartRider as ID.

 

[gaskin]

I'm pretty sure you do have to have a student smartrider on you if you buy a student ticket.

 

[The Speaker]

I'm pretty sure you do have to have a student smartrider on you if you buy a student ticket.

IIRC it doesn't have to be a SmartRider, but just your student card is insufficient.

 

[The_Reaper]

IIRC it doesn't have to be a SmartRider, but just your student card is insufficient.

From memory gaskin is right.

I got caught on this last year

 

[The Speaker]

From memory gaskin is right.

I got caught on this last year

I'll check the website then. Perhaps I wasn't looking at their ads close enough on the train (probably true, much better to drift off and I wasn't really that interested).

Tertiary SmartRider is the only ID we accept
We don’t accept student identification from your educational institution as proof that you are a full-time tertiary student. If you want a concession fare, you must carry your Tertiary SmartRider with you, even if you buy a cash ticket.

Looks like it is.

 

[bok_party]

The problem I have with it is that there is the option of buying a student ticket. Why have the option if you have to have a smartrider? Just have only adult and child options and you won't have those problems.

 

[Silent Alarm]

The problem I have with it is that there is the option of buying a student ticket. Why have the option if you have to have a smartrider? Just have only adult and child options and you won't have those problems.

It's obvious – fund raising.

For most things, concession is granted with a student card, a pension card, a health care card... plenty of people presume that'll be concession for a train, too. They'd probably sting a few dozen people a day with that.

 

[The_Reaper]

The main reason is that a student card doesn't prove you're a full time student and only full time students can get concession

 

[Kram]

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