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. Please include your home address and telephone number. No attachments, please include your letter in the body of the email.I am not a Liberal voter but Matthew Guy’s public transport policy, including a $2 cap on metro fares, has my support. Public transport shouldn’t be run as a profit-making venture. Free and cheap public transport will take people off the roads, which has to be good for the environment and commuter stress levels.
So, for approximately 95 per cent of users who are currently travelling for free, they will have to find some way of actually paying those people in order to make it even cheaper.Whether you charge $2 or $10 for a trip by rail, tram or bus, there are the same overheads of ticketing staff, barriers, tap on/off systems, inspectors and administration. If the aim is to really benefit everyone, then free travel on all public transport is the way to go, not just the current free tram zone.
Politicians have long known never to utter the word “tax” in an election campaign unless it is immediately followed by the word “cuts”. Never stand between a voter and a tax cut.
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