Sydney are amateurs when it comes to overpriced, nonworking technology for tickets! Ours is $1 billion and 15 months behind schedule. For that price we could abolish all the machines and hire conductors for ten years, and have some change to buy a few more trains. "But what about after ten years?" Well, we change our ticketing systems every 5-10 years anyway... in the early 1990s we had "scratchies", then we had the stupid "validate your ticket" things, and now this one.
Sydney are amateurs when it comes to overpriced, nonworking technology for tickets! Ours is $1 billion and 15 months behind schedule. For that price we could abolish all the machines and hire conductors for ten years, and have some change to buy a few more trains. "But what about after ten years?" Well, we change our ticketing systems every 5-10 years anyway... in the early 1990s we had "scratchies", then we had the stupid "validate your ticket" things, and now this one.
I spent a couple of months working for ERG, many years ago.
That was one contract I was very keen not to renew - amateurs...