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[VIC] Antwerp's ticketing system
- Subject: [VIC] Antwerp's ticketing system
- From: Paul Dwerryhouse <paul+usenet@dwerryhouse.com.au>
- Date: 21 May 2001 21:15:42 +0200
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Hi all,
I've just spent the weekend in Antwerp, Belgium, where the ticketing system
on their trams, buses and pre-metro looks suspiciously like MetCrud - in terms
of the ticket and validator shape.
Does anyone know if the mob who did Melbourne's system also had a hand
in Antwerp's system? Presumably it was done earlier than Melbourne's - the
validators look a bit older.
Interestingly enough, the validators had a bunch of buttons on the front of
them, labelled [10+], [1], [2] ... [10]. Not sure what they were for, but
my guess would be to allow more than one person to travel on a multi-trip
ticket, which can't be done on Melbourne's system.
Seems like a easy enough way to solve that problem, anyway. I wonder why
they didn't build it into Metcrud...
Cheers,
Paul.
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Paul Dwerryhouse (paul@dwerryhouse.com.au)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. <---- current location
Melbourne, Australia.