Re: Melbourne Stations with Automatic Barriers

[mccallum@melbpc.org.au (John McCallum)]

In article <01bd4dde$c92eae00$01010101@mikeya>, "Mike Alexander" <malex@bigfoot.com> wrote:

>After all of the discussions about the merits or otherwise of the Metcard
>system, I started wondering which stations actually have the automatic
>barriers. The ones I know are:

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>Does anybody know the criteria for installing them? For example, North
>Melbourne doesn't have them, which is suprising.

>Regards,

>Mike Alexander
>(malex@bigfoot.com)


The reason that North Melbourne does not have barriers is due to the fact that 
Metcard is not yet operating on any route running through the station. They 
may be added at the entrance later. When I was there a couple of weeks ago, 
there were no validators of any sort there.

John McCallum