Re: Transport ticket system collapses

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Ben Munro" <sporologist@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| Tezza wrote:
| > "Bill Bolton" <billbolton@computer.org> wrote in message
| | > | "Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote:
| > |
| > | > 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.

So multiply your problems by the hundreds of thousands of passengers.