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Having just visited Melbourne, I truly hated being forced into paying $7 (AUD) for the privilege of getting a myki card to make a $4.10 trip each way (so $8.20)
by boulos 9y ago
Having just visited Melbourne, I truly hated being forced into paying $7 (AUD) for the privilege of getting a myki card to make a $4.10 trip each way (so $8.20). There is no longer any way to buy paper tickets, and unlike San Francisco which can print out reasonable RF-enabled single ride tickets for MUNI, everyone took it as obvious that $7 AUD was simply the cost of doing business. Thanks for the backstory on myki!
- ClassyJacket 9y agoMelbourne had a disposable ticket system in place for Myki - the tickets had already been made[1]. The Liberal government threw them out, wasting 15 million dollars in the process. And probably more on the equipment to dispense them. This is the same party that on a federal level threw out the nationwide fibre to the premises project, wasting 50 billion dollars on installing new DSL connections instead. I am actually being serious, they will be installing new DSL at a cost of 2400$ per premises until at least 2020. [1] http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/15m-myki-cards-set-to-be-pulped-20110904-1jsf3.html http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/15m-myki-cards-set-to-be-p...