Trams Trains and Buses. Giving up Metcard and loving Myki

[mxwoz]

Today was my first business day using Myki
Got on my Tram Myki worked, rode to St Kilda woops too far, my fault had got to the gripping part in a book and hadn't noticed passing the CBD (I blame ... me really)
Back to the CBD Myki worked 2 seconds
Tram to Docklands Myki again faultless
On the homeward leg
Myki 2 seconds
And then I was home.

Overall I have been using Myki on trams for the last 2 months and mostly it works and works well. Occasionally there are readers not working or a reader takes a little while to register.

For regular travelers using Myki as a weekly or monthly pass it is a fantastic system. Now that you don't have to touch off, one of the major design defects of the system has been removed.

Initially I had been skeptical, but now I am completely won over, I still have gripes, I am after all human, but overall its a fantastic system.

[myki user]

one happy user, a few hundred thousand to go.

The key trouble with myki - apart from the ridiculous cost etc etc - is that it can work fine for one person one day, and be stuffed for another. For example, I tried it the other day at a suburban rail station - it took me about a minute of continually touching my card off and on the scanner to get it to read. Luckily the train wasn't due for 5 minutes...

And when it did finally read, it flashed my card balance up on the screen for a fraction of a second, ie too fast to read....

[MiCCAS]

And when it did finally read, it flashed my card balance up on the screen for a fraction of a second, ie too fast to read....

FYI, I believe it will stay up as long as you hold the card to the reader

[aliens]

I have used it on the tram last few days no issues at all. Only one using it. All machines appear to be working now Metlink ones were all closed this am