Re: CityRail ticketing urgrade?

[alberta@zip.com.au (Albert Alcoceba)]

On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 07:11:36 -0800, Michael Van Baast
<vanbaast@acay.com.au> wrote:

>lets not look back to the biggest failure in ticketing systems in
>sydney, the "metro ten" system on the busses before the greenmachine
>system in place now, this system used a strip down one side of the
>ticket where it printed a black dot, if the ink was running out then the
>spot wouldn't be very dark and the next time you validated the ticket it
>would validate the same spot, a bit of liquid paper on the ticket would
>last a while, but i remember getting 17 trips on a 10 trip ticket
>without trying

Only problem was roving inspectors who looked out for the obvious
overprinting on the ticket.  If you had over 10 insertions on the
ticket, regardless if the system had accepted it, you were fined.


Albert Alcoceba
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