Re: Purchasing non-ATM tickets? (Melb)
Michael Walker (walker@hotkey.net.au)
Sun, 01 Feb 1998 00:50:42 +1100
Daniel Bowen wrote:
>
> paul@xenu.ee.mu.oz.au (Paul Dwerryhouse) wrote:
> >My monthly ticket is due to expire next Tuesday and I'm not yet prepared to
> >put up with the inconvenience of the automatic monthly tickets (nor
> >their apparent tendency to stop working after a week or so), at least not
> >until the MetCard Xpress is launched.
>
> >Where can I still buy the old paper monthly tickets from? [Somewhere
> >I can get to and back from the city within an hour, and preferably somewhere
> >that will _still_ be selling them next Tuesday ;) ]
>
> Don't they still sell paper at all the city stations? Definitely at Parliament
> (north entrance) as of today.
>
> My ticket runs out on Sunday. I'm gonna be brave and go MetCard, and see if it
> survives the month! I'll pay it by EFTPOS so I can prove later what I bought!
>
> Daniel
> --
> Daniel Bowen, Melbourne Australia.
> Remove the spam bait to email me personally...
This is due to end very shortly, as at about slightly over a week ago,
the ATMs were on at at least Museum and Flinders Street I am pretty
sure.
Good idea paying by EFTPOS. One thing of interest is according to the
Metcard brochure the nice lady in a red coat gave me at Canterbury, you
will be able to pay by EFTPOS if you purchase a ticket at a staffed
booking office. Does anyone know when from and how it will work given
the staff are generally reluctant to open the sliding perspex windows as
it is, even to sell you a can of Coke. Usually they make you go round to
the door at the side. ie will there be a pin pad outside the window or
will they have to open it or is the brochure spinning nonsense?
Having said that, after 4 days of use, the Metcard is slightly stained,
the expiry date has started to rub off and the corners are bending. This
is despite the fact it lives in a flat part of my wallet and only comes
out to be shown or validated. I think you are brave going a month on
one.