Re: [Melb] 27% of ticket machine out of order

["William Pearce" <ben_issacs@optusnet.com.au>]

    Fellow Travellers,
    It has been suggested to me that one of the reasons why Sydney's auto
ticket m/cs are more satisfactory than Melbourne's is that most of Sydney's
suburban stations are still manned throughout the day, so the machines can
be supervised , and also that many travellers buy tickets from the booking
office anyway. Is this so?

Regards,

Bill.
"Dave Proctor" <david@spambait.proctor.net> wrote in message
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> On 12 Jun 2001 17:28:28 +1000, spammers-will-die@austux.net (Jeremy
> Lunn) wrote:
>
> >In article <01c0f24f$98688a20$c73e0c3d@default>, Bradley Torr wrote:
> >> * Sometimes the ticket printing apparatus runs low on ink, making the
text
> >> on the ticket nearly illegible.
> >
> >Obviously they got one thing right for Melbourne then.  The ticket
> >machines here use thermal sensitive papper like some fax machines use.
>
> Is that necessarily "right" though? You place a monthly ticket in a
> wallet, and if any sort of heat is applied, the thermal paper will
> balcken up.
>
> Dave