No Seniors myki yet

[raghusondhi]

You are welcome to purchase one like everyone else.

[Bendog]

You are welcome to purchase one like everyone else.

Or do as 400,000 did, and get one free earlier in the year

[travla]

A myki spokesperson instructed me to wait until the Senior's mail-out takes place.

[travla]

90,000 myki seniors cards shelved
CLAY LUCAS
July 27, 2010

THE state government is so concerned about potential glitches in the $1.35 billion myki system that it is not sending out almost 90,000 free seniors cards it has locked in storage.

After writing to all Victorian seniors in January promising a free myki card would be sent within six weeks, those over 60 have been left wondering when or if the cards will come.

Geoffrey Lennie, of Seaford, said he had been told six months ago, in a letter from the Transport Ticketing Authority, that he would receive a free card in the mail. ''Am I still going to get a free one or are they going to make me pay?'' Mr Lennie asked. ''I haven't heard from them since.''

Public Transport Minister Martin Pakula's spokesman, Stephen Moynihan, said the seniors cards would be sent, but only after myki had been ''bedded down'' on buses and trams.

''The seniors mailout is a large logistical operation,'' he said. ''In the mean time, seniors can still access their free Sunday travel fare.''

Opposition transport spokesman Terry Mulder said the government was deliberately delaying sending out the seniors cards so it could include government promotional material. ''John Brumby wants to send a glossy brochure to seniors as close as he can to 27 November's state election,'' he said.

There have been 87,621 myki seniors cards in storage since February when, due to a mistake, the government was forced to spend $2 million manually adding 1 cent to each card, and add a new letter after former transport minister Lynne Kosky quit.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/90000 ... 10slz.html

[Bendog]

90,000 myki seniors cards shelved


There have been 87,621 myki seniors cards in storage since February when, due to a mistake, the government was forced to spend $2 million manually adding 1 cent to each card, and add a new letter after former transport minister Lynne Kosky quit.

They had better be quick : or Pakula will have gone too and another new letter will be needed

And a few thousand of the seniors will have died too!

[Penny]

Mailout starts in about two weeks. Weekend travel will be free for Seniors from 1/1/11.

[fred]

You mean that Seniors are going to get free weekend travel 4 weeks before the State election. What next? Free travel for seniors every day?