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Re: (Vic) New Metcard Yearly Ticket

Subject: Re: (Vic) New Metcard Yearly Ticket
From: mjm@silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au (Mike McBain)
Date: 14 Feb 2000 13:00:17 +1100
Distribution: aus
Newsgroups: aus.rail
Organization: Monash University
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Sam Eades <eadess@yahoo.com> writes:

>The "Metcard Xpress" (proximity card) was extensively tested by onelink,
>and found to be unreliable and too expensive. It has (AFAIK), been
>abandoned.

Meanwhile, in Hong Kong the Octopus proximity card is used by 4 million people
a day, and works just fine. The technology exists but ...?

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