Martin wrote:

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:06:02 -0000, "Visitor No 3"
wrote:
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If you are a visitor and want to ride on the boat, then you pay the visitors
rate. It is something to do with a quaint notion that the multitude of
visitors who descend on the place like a hoard of Visigoths and blight the
lives of the residents should contribute in some way for the irritation that
they undoubtedly cause.

You get similar things in UK. In York council tax payers don't/didn't
have to pay the same car parking fees as the rest of the world.

That's a worldwide phenomenon. We went to an art museum in Cambridge, MA
a while back, and while we paid $7.50 our friends (they didn't know this
beforehand) got in for free as "Cambridge Residents."

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