Re: Sydney/Melbourne transport comparisons

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

"Ben Munro" <sporologist@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| Tezza wrote:
| > "Peter Parker" <parkerp@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
| >
| > | 2. CityRail ticket machines at airport station
| > | - Use touch screens
| > | - Much more complicated than Melbourne Metcard machines
| > | - All but one machine had hand-written signs 'Exact Fare only'
| > | - Machines won't accept new $5 or $50 notes
| > | - Like Melbourne trams, several machines had 'Coin only' signs
| > | - Machines had a weekly ticket top-up facility.
| > | - Overall impression unfavourable
| >
| > You must be mistaken, Cityrail ticket machines almost always work
perfectly,
| > are never faulty and never get vandalised.
|
| Those are the newer touch screen ones. I have only used them a few
| times. Perhaps they are more unreliable than the older ones?

Doesn't matter. Dave and Chris say that all machines are almost infallible
and indestructible.