Re: Metro Light Rail/ SLR ticket machines.

[matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au (Matthew Geier)]

In article <7jnoed$ccc$1@toto.tig.com.au>, Peter R K <peterrk@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>It's good news they have finally given the TVM's away. They were very
>confusing to use, especially for visitors and more often than not would take
>your money and not issue a ticket. I often wondered why I bothered with a
>ticket when you could probably get a free ride anyway.

 I could never see how those TVMs could be still confusing after they
ditched the 3 zone system for the 2 zone one. One key had one set of
stations and one on the other side had the other set. The stations were
listed by name next to the appropiate key.

 I guess people saw the CRT screen, and immediatly got a 'scary hard to
use computer' feeling and fought the machine instead of working with it.