Re: PRIDE 2 & Validation messages (Was: [melb] Announcement heard at Box Hill_

["Bobby Cerny" <bcerny@optushome.com.au>]

There's always an open barrier at the stations (At city stations these are
manned), I notice everyone walks thru there, but what's that beep sound that
occurs as you walk past without swiping your ticket in? (Record number of
passengers perhaps?)

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"Michael" <usenet.spam@gunzel.net> wrote in message
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> Tony Gatt <baulko@optushome.com.au> wrote in article
> <aOWO6.1109$S5.2274@news1.belrs1.nsw.optushome.com.au>:
>
> >All of the stations on the Sandringham line had the reminder message to
> >validate when I was there in December/January.
> >
> >Does this mean that PRIDE2 was installed then?
> >
> >I thought it was only installed in the last couple of months.
>
> Sandringham and Glen Waverley lines have had PRIDE 2 working for a while
> now. I think Glen Waverley has been done in the last few months, and a bit
> longer for Sandringham.
>
> Announcements telling passengers to validate their Metcards are getting a
> bit tedious at best now. They've printed it on floors, walls, paper, ads,
> competitions, and now the PRIDE 2 system. Surely if people haven't
> developed a habit of validating by now, they never will.
>
> Interesting to note today there are still humans doing head counts at
> selected stations in the suburban system. Noted at Kensington this morning
> around 9am. The whole validation concept working at it's best it seems.
>
> Incidentally, stations that have barriers for entry and PRIDE 2 are still
> telling passengers to validate before boarding the train!
>
> M>
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