Re: Transport ticket system collapses

[Ben Munro <sporologist@yahoo.com>]

Tezza wrote:
> 
> "Bill Bolton" <billbolton@computer.org> wrote in message
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> | "Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote:
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> | > I've never used one
> |
> | Say no more!
> 
> Got nothing to do with it. As the bit you snipped said, I've read reports
> and heard all the whinging from customers and station staff. The Union's
> also been complaining about their constant of inoperation for years.

I am a frequent user of the machines, and I rarely have problems with
them. 
They are very occasionally out of order. I have never had one take my
money and not give me a ticket.

Sometimes they won't give change, but this isn't very often, and you
know before you put money in that you won't receive change.

I don't ever recall seeing a ticket machine in Sydney out of action due
to vandalism.