Re: [melb] yearly met cards

[p.edwards@its.unimelb.edu.au (Paul Edwards)]

In article <3AD3D314.E28E2873@iprimus.com.au>, railvic@iprimus.com.au wrote:

> > But surely in this era of user pays, this is not unacceptable. Denying
> > access to a particular service which has value to a significant proportion
> > of passengers because of the abovementioned issue seems like a rather
> > lightweight reason to me.
> > 
> > PE
> 
> I have seen a parent complaining having to pay $10-$12 for replacing a
> lost student pass.  I guess $25 will be out of question for this family
> ...

Some people will complain no matter what. Generalizing examples like this
out to the full passenger population, and then using that as justification
for not introducing touchcard/smartcard technology is still not a
convincing argument (or even a good argument, come to that).

PE