I haven't forgot to renew my train ticket for months...
Also I haven't seen bunches of railway polices blocking station exits for months...
Unfortunately, I bought weekly train ticket last week, I forgot to renew my train ticket today, AND I saw bunches of railway polices at station today...
So, as you can imagine... I had a chat with one of the police... and that costs $200... what a start of the day!
Of course I wasnt happy about the fine, so I wrote to Office of State Debt Recovery hoping I can get a leniency for having clean record so far.
Reasons I gave them are:
I am a regular monthly travel pass buyer, so I normally just renew ticket once a month at most, I did not forget to renew the ticket intentionally.
There were no ticket gates at Rhodes station, people can easily get on the train without realising the ticket is invalid until reaching the destination.
Although they sound more like excuses, but I really think if CityRail is serious about preventing people travelling without valid ticket, they should build ticket gate at EVERY station at least within the Sydney metro.
But anyway, rather than putting hope on government, its probably more realistic if you can just double check you have a valid ticket before going on a public transport...
The email had been forwarded to related department, so hopefully I can hear back from them soon... with good news of course haha
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