Australian Public Ticketing Madness

There is some sheer and utter madness going on down under...

Public transport is pretty common around the world, but for some reason the State governments here like the pain and expense of attempting to develop their own ticketing systems, over and over again....must be all the free lunches

Currently Victoria and New South Wales are developing their own systems, Myki and TCARD respectively.

What an utter waste of time and money.... two expensive systems which are going to be most likely 'incompatible', 'late' and out of date on implementation...

Time to consider nationalising public transport, lets face it, the states are failing miserably, they don't have the cash balls to build new public transport and it's the only way we are going to really get things moving...

Lets consider making public transport free nationwide.. Save a few billion bucks on these dumb new ticketing systems, plus the saving on inspectors and the whole ticketing infrastructure.

It does mean we are going to open the flood gates when it comes to public pressure for new train lines and the like, but lets face it, we need it.

Public transport is becoming free in Melbourne by stealth, it's quite common to get to a train station or tram and find the machine don't work...