Re: Metcard Student Concession Card Computer Scanned Forgeries!

[jkin1@students.latrobe.edu.au (Jason King)]

[x-posted to aus.transport being not a rail issue per se]

On Thu, 27 May 1999 10:44:47 +1000, "John Wayman"
<trecker@bigpond.com> wrote:

>I was on a bus this morning and I saw the driver challenge a student about a
>Met Student Concession Card. The student flashed it at the driver as he
>boarded, but refused to show it to him again when challenged that it might
>be a computer scanned forgery. He chose to get off and not travel.
>
>Has any of the station staff that contribute to this newsgroup detected any
>of these scanned forgeries?
>
>When is the Met going to use Metcard express technology to overcome this
>problem?

How is the use of Metcard Express going to stop this?

The Metcard Express is just a smartcard ticket - students will still
need a Concession card AFAIK, and be required to show it 'on demand'.

The Met Shop in Elizabeth Street has sold me virtually every ticket
I've used this year, and NOT once have they asked to see my Concession
Card. The chances of having to show it one buses if one has a pre-paid
ticket (as I do - Metcard 10) are near enough to zero. Get on,
validate, sit down. The concession card never come into it - tell me
the driver is counting the numbers of beeps from the machine!

The Route 513 Bell Street Bus Co. drivers never even bother to stop
people when their tickets come up as invalid in the ticket machine,
let alone even consider Conession cards. I would have assumed that
they got *some* of the revenue from ticket sales, so it would be in
their interests to be fastidious with the sale.


Cheers,

-Jason.


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Jason King,
School of Law & Legal Studies, 
La Trobe University, Australia
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