Re: [NSW] Cityrail - AutomatedTicketing

["Mitch" <webmaster@spammenot.mitch.zzn.com>]

Even at gated stations, "work"ers often just let people waltz right through.
The gates might as well not be there!


"Hubert Lam" <hubert@imap4.com> wrote in message
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> What I don't understand is, why the world were ticket gates only
> installed at major stations (during 1992/3)? Fair enough the gates might
> be an expensive piece of capital for CR, but wouldn't investing this
> money in the gates for at least all Sydney suburban stations reap more
> benefits for CR itself instead of having those rather menaces ("revenue
> protection officers") roaming around the place?
>
>
>
> Ronald BESDANSKY got bored on Sat, 24 Jun 2000 09:53:06 +1000 and so
> wrote the following:
>
>           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!
>