Re: [VIC] R.I.P. Metcard Xpress??

["Alex Bunn" <hockeyone@hotmail.com>]

Hi all again
I think this news is actually good
1. Becasue i am one of the thousands of school kids at South Yarra trying to
plough through on open gate.
2. It means that people are still working on the machines and are still
trying to set them right  (although it seems unlikely to happen)

>From Alex Bunn


Sam Eades <eadess@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Received a buletin at work this week reguarding next year's Yearly
> tickets and Student passes:
>
> "As of the 1 January (sic) 2000, new issues of the Yearly Full Fare
> tickets will be issued as Metcards." It goes on to say theat theses
> tickets will have magnetic stripes as regular Metcards do and will need
> to be validated every trip.
>
> The new Yearly Metcards will be made from a material called Triplex
> which is a piece of plastic sandwiched between two layers of board. (So
> they don't fall apart when you leave them in your pocket and they go
> through the washing machine!!)
>
> They will still require a photo ID with the ticket. I have seen pictures
> of these tickets. It is just a Metcard with "YEARLY 2000" written on the
> coloured side, with some patterns.
> The student passes will be identical, except that they will say "STUDENT
> 2000"
>
> So, what has become of Metcard Xpress? Has it been a total failure, as
> is the E-Tag system (in many ways it was an E-Tag for a person!!), or
> has it just been put off for another year??
>
> Sam Eades