Re: (Vic) New Metcard Yearly Ticket

["Alex Bunn" <hockeyone@hotmail.com>]

You people may have seen an article in the Herald Sun about a week ago about
4 students making a petition to send to the transport minister and others. I
go to their school and one of them is in my class. They now have over 1200
names and are still going. Just thought i would tell you how it's going.

 From Alex Bunn
Francis Shand <fshand@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> 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
>