Re: [Melb] Odd ticket

[Chris Gordon <cmgord@VICSIG.alphalink.com.au>]

> Something also running around my mind (scarey huh?) about metcards from
> buses being blank and not having any details on them until placed into the
> drivers machine. If not validated within 2-3mins of running through drivers
> machine card will not validate and become useless. During my Report of
> Offence course we had a few bus drivers telling us about it.
> 
> Anyone able to clarify????

The tickets that the bus drivers have are blank.  When you buy a ticket
from the driver he/she tells the machine which one, and hands you a
blank metcard (or puts it into the validator for you) and the machine
incodes it and validates.  The "ticket" doesn't die if you don't slick
it into the machine in time, it is just a blank ticket
 
> "Chris Gordon" <cmgord@VICSIG.alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
> news:3A951B5C.98A31063@VICSIG.alphalink.com.au...
> > > Just walking down the street and found a Metcard which is completely
> blank
> > > except that on the side where expiry dates etc are printed in the middle
> it
> > > says "***INVALID***" and the message about remembering to validate it.
> > >
> > > How could a Metcard get into such a state? If it was prepurchased off
> the
> > > system it should say the type of ticket on the front, but it doesn't. If
> it
> > > was purchased out of a machine it should have the ticket type printed on
> the
> > > back.
> >
> > It would have been pre-loaded inside a machine (either tram, or train
> > station) and because it wasn't used in 10 minutes, printed
> > "***INVALID***" and dumped in the back.  Then once the machine was
> > serviced it must have got free....
> >
> > (Reason for this is after 10 minutes the ticket will curl up, and it is
> > pre-loaded and printed with the slogan to save time)
> >
> > > Dropped/stolen from a ticket machine or a bus perhaps?
> >
> > Dropped as rubbish from inside a machine.
> >
> > > Daniel
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > C.
> >
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C.

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