Article: Train passengers to pay twice for journey to Ekka

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From Courier Mail click here!

Train passengers to pay twice for journey to Ekka

Train passengers to pay twice for journey to Ekka
Article from: The Courier-Mail

Patrick Lion

August 01, 2008 12:00am

TRAIN commuters travelling to Brisbane's Ekka will be penalised, following another bungle involving TransLink's integrated ticketing system.

A leaked TransLink memo, obtained by the State Opposition, reveals the zonal system will not recognise the Ekka station as one of 23 ticketing zones across the network.

Commuters will instead have to buy a second ticket for as much as $1.30 to cover the journey from city stations to the Exhibition Grounds station. Go Card users will not be affected.

TransLink yesterday defended the measures, saying the train station would cost almost 10 times as much as running shuttle buses to the Ekka between August 7 and 16.

However, Opposition transport spokesman Tim Nicholls said the decision to charge commuters twice to catch the train defeated the purpose of integrated ticketing.

TransLink spokesman Adam Nicholson said the Ekka train station required  more staff to run the extra services.

[ozbob]

Contrary to what is reported in the article above, go card users are affected. They too will pay the additional fare for rail and the 20% flat discount will not be applied to that fare.

Happy travelling!

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