Re: (Vic) New Metcard Yearly Ticket

["Johann Fan" <jyf@optusnet.com.au>]

Roderick Smith <rodsmith@werple.net.au> wrote in message
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> 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.

Multimodal as in buses, trains, ferries?

>
> 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.

I agree totally with this, Metcards can't even survive a monthly ticket.
Even with the pastic backing it won't last 2 months. I still can't
understand why the ticket has to be thermally printed. It should be a
plastic credit card type card.

cheers
Johann