For tram and bus passengers in Melbourne there’s no way to purchase a ticket onboard the vehicle – random retail outlets are the only place where you can purchase a Myki so that you can travel. So how much does Public Transport Victoria pay these retailers for providing this service? Well, they get given some […]
The other week over on Reddit somebody asked why there was a V/Line branded ticket office at Box Hill station, despite the fact that no V/Line trains run there. The answer – it’s a long one, of course. In the beginning Back in the “good old days” paper tickets ruled the railways, each one of […]
Things move slow in the land of Myki, so I was surprised the other week to discover that that Myki machines can finally sell General Concession, Senior and Child myki cards. Previously they only sold full fare ones. So why was it a problem? When Myki was first rolled out, the cards were bright green, […]
I recently spent a long weekend in Sydney and tried to buy an Opal card – their public transport smartcard – an exercise that was much harder than I expected.
For all of the things that Myki has managed to screw up, there is one positive outcome from the implementation of the new ticketing system – the ability to pre-purchase V/Line tickets ahead of time. So what did V/Line passengers have to put up with before?
