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   Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 05:39:10 JST Yuchen Pei
   Myki is garbage. There's no need to compare with cities spending more on their transport payment system, because only in Melbourne is a pt card mandatory. In any other normal city people can pay fare with cash or credit card. In that sense Melbourne is like 30 years behind
   
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   https://www.vibewire.com.au/?p=161911&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-an-expert-believes-victorians-are-too-hard-on-myki
   
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   A transport expert says people are being too hard on the Myki system after Premier Jacinta Allan was grilled by Tony Jones on 3AW Mornings about the system.
   
   Chief executive officer of Hale Infra Strategy. Dr Chris Hale told Shane McInnes, Melbourne’s system is only four or five years behind world-leading cities such as London and Singapore, while Sydney has invested hundreds of billions into their Opal system.
   
   “It’s a discussion we could have that can’t be absent of the cost that these high-end, sophisticated systems,” he said.
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     Eric Ireland (erici@social.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 07:09:41 JST Eric Ireland

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     @quasi It did seem to be a bit of a waste of space back when they had ticket machines on the trams. I can see why they wanted to get rid of them and it used to slow down the bus drivers when they had to deal with cash, but still they should have waited until they had card readers that could do smart card transactions before they did away with cash.

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     Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 11:05:37 JST Yuchen Pei

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     • Eric Ireland
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     Ticket machines in the vehicles sounds like a bad idea indeed. In a normal city ticket machines are placed in stops and stations and sell tickets and passes. But in Melbourne these machines only top up the pt card, so anyone without a card is screwed unless there is a place nearby selling them. I find it hard to comprehend how this regressive design was approved in the first place