Re: Met Automated Ticketing
Daniel Bowen (dbowen@custard.net.#SPAMTRAP#.au)
Mon, 16 Feb 1998 05:37:44 GMT
Michael Walker <walker@hotkey.net.au> wrote:
> Also, what is supposed to happen at present if you are travelling on a
>tram where the validators aren't on but you travel on a Metcard line and
>can only purchase Metcards. This would be a regular situation I imagine
>for many city travellers trying to get home to a Metcard area with a 2hr
>ticket purchased in advance from a ticket machine. Would they be forced
>to buy a non-Metcard ticket by the conductor or be allowed to travel to
>their city station to validate it at the gates there. Again, this
>happened to me on Thursday on my still unvalidated ticket. In my case,
>the conductress couldn't move up the crowded tram so I was never asked,
>but I would be interested to know what the 'official' view is.
The official view (according to the MetCard brochures) is that an unvalidated
MetCard is NOT valid on a non-Metcard service. (Some staff on non-MetCard
services don't know this though!) You can always buy a paper ticket and use the
MetCard another day.
Daniel
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