Originally Posted by
WingNut60
Smart-@rs3d answer - It depends where you get on!
Perth - Forrestfield : 2 zones $4.70 full fare.
Same by bus.
What about the “Airport Station Fee”?
in Sydney it’s $14.30 above the cost of your ticket.
Once again, private monopoly owners attempting to price gouge the public. What they didn’t figure on, in Sydney anyway, was that people would refuse to pay such an over the top amount. Why would you?
if you’re traveling to the airport, you’re probably not alone. $28.60 plus the cost of the ticket from your home station goes a long way toward making a taxi fare reasonable.
This greedy logic resulted in the original consortium going broke, I believe, as nobody used the airport stations.
Now, the stations are virtually deserted. The only users are those that arrived at the station for the first time, and haven’t yet realised how much it’s going to cost them to actually enter the terminals. Or those that are going the other way and haven’t thought of a better option, yet. They will next time though.
I sincerely hope Perth, and Melbourne, aren’t gouged in this way by their new train systems. I know, tell him he’s dreaming.