Re: When will MetCard Xpress tickets be available (was: Re: Purchasing non-ATM tickets? (Melb))

David Proctor (daproc@bigfoot.com)
3 Feb 1998 10:48:18 GMT

Peter Mason <Peter_Mason@nabaus.com$SPAM_KILL$.au> wrote in article
<6b6563$7rf@mo.nabaus.com.au>...
> I am a regular Met traveller and have a Yearly Ticket. From what I have
> seen and read, yearly and monthly tickets will be replaced with MetCard
> Xpress tickets.
>
> Does anyone know anything about the MetCard Xpress ticket? What is it?
> How it works? How to get one??? When..???
>

I can't tell you WHEN it will be introduced, but it will basically be a
plastic card (similar to the new phone cards) with a microchip embedded in
them. You will just need to press the card against the yellow dot on gates
and validating machines, and the reader will obtain the information from
the chip on the card. (In Manchester, you do not even have to make contact
- merely wave it approx. 30cm from the reader, meaning you do not have to
remove it from your wallet or purse!)

> Thanks and regards,
> Peter

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Regards


David Proctor
daproc@bigfoot.com