Comments on: How fast are Melbourne’s ticket gates?

By: A little bit of history: cash railways (not the usual type of railway I post about) – Daniel Bowen dot com

Mon, 14 Aug 2017 00:31:07 +0000

[…] faster than the hybrid Metcard/Myki “frankenbarriers” they replaced. This is based on this great blog post from earlier in the week by Marcus Wong. Well worth a […]

By: The ins and outs of fare gates – Daniel Bowen dot com

The ins and outs of fare gates – Daniel Bowen dot com — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 21:50:30 +0000

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By: Melbourne trains - which carriage should I choose? - Waking up in Geelong

Melbourne trains - which carriage should I choose? - Waking up in Geelong — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 21:34:11 +0000

[…] people call it ‘prewalking‘ – and by doing so, you won’t get stuck behind the dimwits who don’t know how to use a myki […]

By: Marcus Wong

Marcus Wong — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 10:19:46 +0000

In reply to jack. By the looks of it, the new Vix readers were designed as a drop in replacement for the previous ACS units.

By: jack

jack — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 09:45:50 +0000

Since April 2014 new MYKI gates installed at Richmond and some stations. Main difference is you touch on the screen instead of under it. Oddly, there is still a large pad on the below the screen and people try touching off in the wrong spot all the time Seriously, who designs this stuff?

By: Broken promises from Myki | Waking up in Geelong

Broken promises from Myki | Waking up in Geelong — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:49:30 +0000

[…] entire point of a smartcard ticketing system is that it is faster than a magnetic strip based one: Myki fails at that. Maybe building the entire system atop Windows CE is the issue, perhaps it is because we hired a […]

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:28:34 +0000

In reply to Kevin.

Hong Kong’s Octopus card is even older – launched back in 1997, it was the same year Melbourne was still having teething issues with the Metcard system!

Their cards also come in one of two languages – Chinese or English – with the interface of the card readers and ticket machines doing the same:
http://www.checkerboardhill.com/2012/07/hong-kong-octopus-cards-bilingual/

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:09:30 +0000

Look and learn from the Singapore system Melbourne. Put in place since 2001 (yes folks, that was 11 years ago) and works like a charm. Myki is third-world country technology.

By: My 15 minutes of fame | Waking up in Geelong

My 15 minutes of fame | Waking up in Geelong — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:35:22 +0000

[…] 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 […]

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:49:51 +0000

In reply to Scruffy.

It’s a pity I didn’t get around to timing how long it took for Metcard users to exit a station in morning peak – by mid 2012 when I started, most commuters had switched to Myki because weekly and monthly Metcards had already been withdrawn.

The 45 passengers per minute figure works out to 1.33 seconds per person – if you got 45 people queued up and with their their tickets at the ready, I can’t see any reason why that rate could not be sustained.