Re: [vic] anyone seen THIS Metcard behaviour?

[Roderick Smith <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

This is the beauty of splitting the Met into two companies: they shouldn't
be identical (just like Ansett & Qantas).
The symptoms could be explained by connex having to give an extra day as
penance for poor performance over the last quarter, while Bayside does not
have to do this.

As ever, you shouldn't have to poke a monthly into an entwerter at all
after the first occasion.  Bit by bit the punitive rules are being
absorbed by the community as ok: just what the previous Hitler-style
government knew would happen.

pshute@melbpc.org.au wrote:

> I have a monthly ticket, due to expire on September the 16th.  That's
> that expiry date printed on the back, and that's the expiry date that
> validators always flash at me when I put the ticket in.
> Today at Box Hill the validator said "expires 17/9/00". Thinking I'd
> misread it, I put the ticket back in to go out again. Again it said
> the 17th.
> When I arrived at my home station (St Albans line), I put it in the
> validator there. It said "expires 16/9/00", as normal.

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Regards
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor