早起鸟儿好处多！墨尔本首创搭乘早班火车免费　
 

早起鸟儿好处多！墨尔本首创搭乘早班火车免费　

11月12日消息  “早起的鸟儿有虫吃”，但现在早起的上班族，还有免费的火车可以搭。墨尔本最近就推出一项实验政策，为了避免交通巅峰时期过度拥挤，民众只要在早上7点前搭车，车票就通通免费，这可乐坏当地民众，他们纷纷表示，这可是个省钱的好方法。

天下没有白吃的午餐，但却有免费搭乘的火车。墨尔本最近试办一项新政策，民众只要在7点前搭车，车票通通不用钱，这项免费早班车的政策，主要是降低通勤巅峰时期，列车的过度拥挤状况。澳洲公共运输部长琳恩蔻丝基就表示，非常很鼓励民众提早出门的时间，自己早上搭车时候就觉得一点都不拥挤。

不过站在消费者的立场来说，要民众自己牺牲去配合不愿增班的列车公司，难免觉得本末倒置，澳洲公共运输消费者协会丹尼尔包温就说，7点真的有点太早，要一般人提前1小时出门，很多人的意愿并不高。

澳洲官方表示，提早搭车的民众，估计一个月可以节省$100澳元，目前只限Frankston和Sydenham两线的火车，如果试行成功的话，明年还会扩大到全维州所有的火车线。

不过这样的方式到底可以吸引多少通勤族，就要看澳洲民众是比较重视睡眠还是比较为自己的荷包想想。








Free train travel before 7am on the Frankston and Sydenham lines.





Free train travel for early birds




Posted Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:07am AEDT     ABC News


Free travel offer to ease train congestion. (: Timothy Marshall)

Early commuters will get to travel for free on some Melbourne train lines this morning, as part of a new push to reduce peak hour congestion.

Commuters on the Frankston and Sydenham lines arriving at a city station before 7 am will travel for free.

Connex spokesman John Rees says it is a trial, aiming to encourage people to take earlier trains.

He says it is part of a three-month trial and if it is successful, the Victorian government will introduce the plan across the entire network next year.

"The point is there's not that many people who actually use the trains before seven o'clock to make their journeys into the city," he said.

"I think if we see people actually coming on to the early bird trains, and we'll see the numbers rise there," Mr. Rees said.

"Then we'll see that whole am peak load actually spread across the entire period, as opposed to being more or less sandwiched between 7 and 8.30 or 9 o'clock.