(Vic) New Metcard Yearly Ticket

[Francis Shand <fshand@bigfoot.com>]

I recently got my new student yearly ticket - now in the form of a metcard.
It was however, simply a normal paper metcard. I don't understand how it is
expected to last for a whole year.

Does anyone know what happened to the proximity cards that were supposed to
exist?

For now, I am just showing it to the attendants at the gates as I would have
done with the old one. I dare not put it in the machines - I can just
imagine them chewing up my $288 worth of ticket.

Francis Shand
Camberwell, Vic