Re: Yarra Trams Article in Sunday Age

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

In article <3A81F770.BFD8A7F7@primus.com.au>, railvic@primus.com.au wrote:

> > Come on, they were little scraps of paper.  Cost a fraction of a cent each
> > to print, and could be shredded and recycled when no longer useful.  (Would
> > I be right in guessing that Metcards with their magnetic stripe, once
> > cancelled, are no use even for recycling?)
> 
> Yeah, when you start to accumulate them across the whole metropolitan,
> it a different matter.

Yet no different to having a heap of Metcards across the whole metropolitan
area, surely? And given the smaller area of the old tickets compared to
Metcard (even leaving out the mag stripe issue), I don't think that this is
a sustainable (pun intended) argument from railvic. 

> Anthony, in pre-Metcards days, you cannot pre-purchase your tickets or
> purchase tickets over the phone or from retail outlets, such as
> milkbars, newsagencies, chemists, etc.

Again, what about the scratchies that one could purchase (I did) from
milkbars and pharamcists (at least)?

Cheers,
Paul