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NEWS RELEASE - Changes to MyMulti Tickets a Mean Blow to Ferry Users

posted Friday 24 May 2013
A transport consumer group has described as "mean" the decision to remove ferry trips from the MyMulti1 weekly tickets from 1st September.

Allan Miles, Secretary for Action for Public Transport, said that while it might be justifiable to ask some ferry passengers to upgrade to a MyMulti2 or a MyMulti3 weekly, there is no reason to withdraw ferry travel from MyMulti1 tickets.

"Despite words about fairness", Mr Miles said, "the Minister's action is mean-spirited."

"The tickets should be re-christened MyPartly1 or MyHalfMulti1", he said.

Mr Miles said, "The ferry travel should have been retained on MyMulti1 tickets for shorter trips in the inner harbour and Parramatta River."

"To use the Minister's words, that would have been 'fair and consistent'," he said.

Mr Miles said that Neutral Bay, the Zoo and Balmain are only a few kilometres from the city. "Commuters from these suburbs," Mr Miles said, "will need to carry two tickets in their pocket instead of one."

Mr Miles said he is disappointed in this first backward step in the long road of public transport integration that this government and the previous government have followed.

"The Minister's action has put a question mark after her motto that The Customer is at the Centre of Everything that We Do", Mr Miles said.



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