Comments on: Educating the cattle: Myki touch on and off https://wongm.com/2012/04/educating-the-cattle-myki-touch-on-and-off/ Marcus Wong. Gunzel. Engineering geek. History nerd. Tue, 31 May 2022 03:14:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Photos from ten years ago: May 2012 - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2012/04/educating-the-cattle-myki-touch-on-and-off/#comment-834967 Tue, 31 May 2022 03:14:23 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=2479#comment-834967 […] They were also showing passengers the “correct” way to touch on. […]

]]> By: Rub Myki the wrong way (the paint comes off!) - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2012/04/educating-the-cattle-myki-touch-on-and-off/#comment-124387 Thu, 07 Nov 2013 21:32:45 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=2479#comment-124387 […] – if their card isn’t recognised instantly, less clued up passengers usually start rubbing their cards against the reader as hard as possible until it makes the beep (or catches […]

]]> By: Broken promises from Myki | Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2012/04/educating-the-cattle-myki-touch-on-and-off/#comment-55897 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:31:14 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=2479#comment-55897 […] cards promised has never eventuated, with the Transport Ticketing Authority having to run a “Myki users urged to touch, not swipe or wave” campaign in early 2012 to reset user exceptions around the poor performance of the […]

]]> By: Marcus https://wongm.com/2012/04/educating-the-cattle-myki-touch-on-and-off/#comment-41619 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:56:43 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=2479#comment-41619 In reply to Tim.

it didn’t help that the initial Myki message was ‘swipe on / swipe off’ – you see the occasional references to it in official publications from a few years back:
http://archive.premier.vic.gov.au/component/content/article/11242.html

And the media continued using it after ‘touch off’ became the official word:
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/city-saver-fares-to-be-scrapped-under-myki-20100618-yl0n.html
http://www.theage.com.au/national/commuters-face-penalty-fare-of-496-20091020-h6y4.html

]]> By: Tim https://wongm.com/2012/04/educating-the-cattle-myki-touch-on-and-off/#comment-41590 Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:29:42 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=2479#comment-41590 I did some work at the Department of Transport earlier this year, their design department is a bit snowed under and they were hell for leather trying to get the message out. It is not uncommon for them to work late at night and on weekends. There were lots of discussions about what to replace the “touch on, touch off” with as it wasn’t working at the time.

]]> By: tayser https://wongm.com/2012/04/educating-the-cattle-myki-touch-on-and-off/#comment-27606 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:41:06 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=2479#comment-27606 In reply to mgm.

^ hah, perfect.

]]> By: mgm https://wongm.com/2012/04/educating-the-cattle-myki-touch-on-and-off/#comment-27511 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:04:11 +0000 http://wongm.com/?p=2479#comment-27511 I think they should come up with a jingle, something like the old Slip, Slop and Slap jingle;
myki: Slap it on then Slip it off

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