Re: Metcard Student Concession Card Computer Scanned Forgeries!

["John Wayman" <trecker@bigpond.com>]

It is the six monthly or twelve monthly ticket that is forged, not the I.D.
card. Thus it is actually defrauding the Met of revenue, not a case of
getting a concession they are not entitled to!

Computer scanners can do a great job, except the colours especially on the
six monthly are a bit too intense.

These are hard to challenge unless you are looking for them.

Cheers
John Wayman

Jason King <jkin1@students.latrobe.edu.au> wrote in message
374cc3f9.7272086@news.connexus.net.au">news:374cc3f9.7272086@news.connexus.net.au...
> [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.
>
>
> ---->
> Jason King,
> School of Law & Legal Studies,
> La Trobe University, Australia
> <----