Re: Transport ticket system collapses

[Ben Munro <sporologist@yahoo.com>]

Tezza wrote:
> 
> "Ben Munro" <sporologist@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> 3A91DF99.A21BC31D@yahoo.com">news:3A91DF99.A21BC31D@yahoo.com...
> | 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.

Then you get hundreds of thousands of passengers with occasional
problems. Not constant inoperation.

That's nothing like the problems the Melbournites are complaining about.