Re: [NSW] Cityrail - AutomatedTicketing

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Ronald BESDANSKY" <ronbest@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> Anyone know why the ticket gates only accept the ticket one way round?
Most
> magnetic ticket readers (e.g. car parks) will accept it both ways. If the
> mag stripe were in the centre, it should be pretty trivial to accept
tickets
> either way - just reverse the order of the characters read!

Probably a cost thing. Most magnetic boarding pass readers at airports
(certainly SYD international is this way) have four mag-stripe reader heads
so that it can read the stripe no matter which way it is inserted.

Dave