‘Everyone do the Myki hunch’ – it’s the only way for a person of average height to read the touchscreen on the ticket machine. So why are the machines so bloody low?
Archive for 2012
My 15 minutes of fame
November 16th, 2012
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In case you didn’t notice it, yesterday I found my 15 minutes of fame when Tuesday’s blog post on the speed of Myki gates was picked by Melbourne newspaper The Age, and I did an short interview during the Drive show on ABC Radio 774. So how did it come about?
How fast are Melbourne’s ticket gates?
November 13th, 2012
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How many passengers per minute can a bank of Myki ticket gates process at a Melbourne railway station in morning peak? In the case of Flagstaff Station it doesn’t seem to be enough, and the reason might be the cycle time of the gates – but what about some hard data?
Myki gates: weren’t they supposed to be better?
November 8th, 2012
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Myki: a few months ago the queues to exit Melbourne’s railway stations each morning grew to colossal lengths because of the exceeding slow ‘Frankbarriers’ that commuters needed to pass through. The solution promised to us was the rollout of proper Myki ticket barriers, but has it made any difference?
Regional Rail Link and diesel generators
November 7th, 2012
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Over the past few months I have been following the progress of work on the Regional Rail Link project – the one thing that stuck me as odd was the vast proliferation of diesel generator sets at the site offices along the route.
