IntroductionPage last modified/checked: Thursday, July 26, 2007This section is the last for us to complete, based on our intentions when we first started work on this website in late 1999. It fills the gap between the end of the Neighbourhood fare system in 1989 and the total implementation of the Metcard automatic fare collection system in 2002. This period witnessed the greatest changes to Victoria's public transport ever known, some might say a literal turning upside down and shaking out. It took a new ilk of management and government to reshape public transport from a decaying system into a privatised service. The diligence and outcome of that process could fill volumes and where relevant we touch upon it here. This section is concerned primarily however, with the many different metropolitan tickets that came and went during the period of review. It explains their purpose and market, and in many cases you will see the actual sources of information that publicised the many ticketing and operational changes to both the general public and transport staff. We feel our efforts to obtain and collate this material and the associated tickets at the time they were available has paid off. This has enabled us to construct this section as a comprehensive and accurate record of a great many and often rapid succession of changes to the metropolitan ticketing system, both major and minor. We do not claim, however that any word on a subject as complex and specialised as this is ever the final one. |
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