Re: [VIC/NSW] Re: Transport ticket system collapses

["Sam Eades" <seades@bigpond.net.au>]

Tezza <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Jonathan Lau" <jonlau@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> | Personally, I've never found a faulty CityRail ticket machine in the 8
> years
> | the system has been running. Exceptions to this are "closed" machines,
> those
> | which can't accept coins/notes and vandalised machines, but even this is
> | rare.
>
> So no faulty machines except the closed ones - possibly due to a fault?
> So no faulty machines except the ones which won't except notes.
> So no faulty machines except the ones which won't except coins.
> So no faulty machines except the ones which were vandalised.


When a Metcard machine is faulty, it will do all of the above plus more. It
will refuse to issue a ticket after payment has been made, it will take
money and deny that it did, it will refuse to give change or a refund....

>From experiencing both, I would have to say that Sydney's are definitely
more reliable than Melbourne's.

Sam