Re: Melbourne - Metcard validation before every trip

["David Proctor" <daproc@spamsux.healey.com.au>]

Paul Dwerryhouse <paul@xenu.ee.mu.oz.au> wrote in article
<6p3gsm$7u7$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>...

> Governments are there to _serve_ us, not to _control_ us. I maintain that
> Metcard is an overly restrictive (and buggy) system that could do with a
> good redesigning. Having to re-validate tickets on the way into a system
> and upon changing vehicles is ridiculous. And inefficient.

Why? We have been doing it in Sydney (without any problems) for years! And
it is not when changing vehicles (unless you are on trams or buses!)