Re: (Vic) New Metcard Yearly Ticket

["Tom Bunn" <tombunn@hotmail.com>]

 You may have seen some of my school freinds in the Herald-Sun the other day
tlking about how they organised a petition to be sent to the Minsister for
transport and others. I for one still have not made a decision on the saga
but i know that it will be a nusiance going back to the ticket booth to get
a new ticket every now and again.

Tom Bunn
Elsternwick. Vic
Sam Eades <eadess@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> B61 wrote:
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> > In article <B4C9F519.1BD3%fshand@bigfoot.com>,
> >   Francis Shand <fshand@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> > I don't know why they changed them to a metcard cos the other pass was
> > quicker and easier to use. I'm using last year's one until the day it
> > expires. I've used the metcard just 3 times and it's already getting
> > tatty in my wallet.
> >
> > > 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?
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> These tickets are not just paper, they have a layer of plastic emebedded
in
> them. If this ticket falls apart or becomes badly damadged, all you need
to
> do is take it back to where it was issued and they will replace it.
> HOWEVER, if you have intentionally mutilated/damaged the ticket (yes we
can
> tell), it will cost you the $10.70 replacement fee.
>
> The "Metcard Xpress" (proximity card) was extensively tested by onelink,
> and found to be unreliable and too expensive. It has (AFAIK), been
> abandoned.
>
> Incidentaly, the plastic folders with your yearly tickets in them will
> cause the thermal printing on the back of your metcard to fade.There are
> new ticket wallets coming out soon.
>
> Sam Eades
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