Re: Millennium Metcards (was: [VIC] R.I.P. Metcard Xpress??)

["John Wayman" <trecker@optusnet.com.au>]

The Metcard has been turned into a collectors series that will appeal to
more than just ticket gunzels. It will be worth it to pull cards out of
rubbish bins and off the floor of carriages to build your collection.

I knew they would find a use for Metcards because otherwise they have been
an absolute disaster as a ticket system.

Met employees continue to get issued with photo ID cards - where is Metcard
Express. Even City Link seems to have debugged its e-tag tolling system in
less time than Metcard Express has been in mothballs!

Cheers
John Wayman

"James Brook" <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> How stupid are the new "Millennium Metcards"? :-) Hovering jet powered W
> class trams!
>
> Vaughan Williams wrote:
>
> > I hope that sometime soon, somebody realises what an unmitigated
> > disaster Metcard has been and abandons it. Tinkering isn't going to cut
> > it. The system has such a bad name that its not worth trying to rescue
> > it.
> >
> > Pity about the $330m plus of taxpayer funds poured into it. how many
> > conductors and station staff would that have paid for? How many of the
> > fool proof paper tickets?
>
>
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> --
> - James Brook -
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