Re: [Vic] Metcard - What could be done.

[Railvic <railvic@yahoo.com.au>]

Roderick Smith wrote:

> Vaughan missed the point of my comment:
>
> Vaughan Williams wrote:
>
> > RS: There should be no 'requirement' to 'revalidate', and no need to poke
> > a ticket
> > > in a slot to exit from a station.
> > > There should be no need for the holder of a periodical ticket to poke
> > it into a
> > > machine ever.
> >
> > V: I don't know about this... to get through automatic gates, if we are
> > going to have electronic ticketing, its sensible to give people the
> > option of showing their ticket electronically or showing it visually.
>
> People with periodical tickets shouldn't need to be going through barriers
> at all: either with electronic checking or with manual checking.

So does this mean periodic tickets don't have an expiry date?  Or if they do,
then they are validated when issued from ticket machines?  Wait a minute, what
about those customers who purchase such tickets on Friday afternoon on the way
home, but not going to use it until following Monday morning??

> European (and even San Francisco) practice: it is the traveller's
> responsibility to hold a valid ticket, and this is checked by random roving
> squads (like 0.05 blood alcohol).  No barriers are needed at all.  Any
> ticket should be validated just once.