Re: Metro Light Rail/ SLR ticket machines.

[jyfx@optusnet.com.au (Johann Fan)]

In article <37603ac6.0@newshost.pcug.org.au>, davibenn@pcug.org.au 
says...
> 
> Matthew Geier wrote in message <7jo08v$5h9$1@metro.ucc.usyd.edu.au>...
> >In article <7jnoed$ccc$1@toto.tig.com.au>, Peter R K <peterrk@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>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 found the ticket machines very unfriendly.  First of all the buttons
> didn't align properly with the screen - this could easily have been solved
> by permanently marking the instructions on the face plate.  There were also
> superfluous buttons which didn't do anything.  Secondly of course the
> machines didn't accept notes, and there were no change machines.
> 
[snip]

This sounds awfully similiar to some other TVM's in Melbourne?
=)