Re: (Vic) New Metcard Yearly Ticket

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

Hong Kong's tickets are durable, but they are part of a closed system:
barriers everywhere, not multimodal.  BART (San Francisco, USA) had similar
technology 20 years ago.

These are expensive systems to provide and operate, and are suitable for
high density systems: something which Melbourne isn't.

The next poster in this thread made a pertinent point: up to now, a
periodical ticket could be kept in its cover for most of the time.  Now it
gets a minimum of two extractions per day, more if being used multimodally
by a person who follows the unnecessarily-punitive rules.

-- 
Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Johann Fan <jyf@optusnet.com.au> wrote in article
<882nog$h47$1@news1.mpx.com.au>...
> I have just returned from Hong Kong where the ERG supplied Octopus Card
> system is in use. Its a great system and one of the best I have seen in
the
> world. So why can't onelink use the same system (software and hardware)
> here?? I can see problems as trips in Hong Kong are deducted on a
zone/trip
> basis and not time/zone basis.