>ajwright@ozemail.com.au (Ashley Wright) wrote:
>From my observations today of groups of people at several stops
>gathered around ticket machines trying to figure out how to buy a
>ticket, the issue of ticket sales will have to be resolved before the
>issue of enforcement comes into play!
Most of the machines failed in various fashions on the first operating
day. Its probably getting worse. I hope SLR have a performance contract
with the machine vendor.
>I ended up with a "machine" ticket (no indication of value) manually
>sold by an SLR employee at Central which simply had the date rubber
>stamped on the back of it.
They are issuing these in return for Telegraph free ride tokens. With
the ticket machines all playing up, I guess the employee's playing
conductors are selling the stamped tickets they were exchanging for
tokens.
-- Matthew Geier, | Australian Public Access Network Association matthew@sleeper.apana.org.au | +61 2 9587 9773 matthew@law.usyd.edu.au | 018 977 356