Ticketless on the rails
February 19th, 2008 Roshan Posted in College |
Imagine you’re stopped at the Guindy station by ticket inspectors. It’s a mere formality, you’re an upstanding citizen and always travel legally. The last thing that you expect is to be told that you’ve been travelling outside the 1 hour period that the ticket is valid for, you have exceeded that period by a horrible 100%, the fine for which is fifty times the cost of the ticket itself. Makes me wonder, really. Why is that limit 1 hour? A reasonable limit would be 4 hours. Of course, that’s what I think. Ranjitha’ll remember to buy the ticket the next time, she says. That’s the right way to do it, while everybody waits for someone to modify the ticket printing machine to print 4 instead of 1 on that portion of the ticket. One can hope.
Otherwise, here’s a comic that reminds me of somebody else who doesn’t like my trebuchet ideas.
February 19th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
We are not building a goddamn trebuchet!!!!!!
February 19th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Bugger you. I’m telling you it’s a good idea.
February 19th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Those MRTS buggers have withdrawn that two way ticket system too.
February 20th, 2008 at 9:53 am
They have? The suburban rail still has return tickets.