tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post8965212034770475371..comments2024-03-25T22:17:35.616+00:00Comments on Public Transport Experience: Mangeyster Mysteryfatbusblokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06833340546527596517noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-29373675458856990722011-09-17T20:52:02.156+01:002011-09-17T20:52:02.156+01:00My suggestion re Bellgraphic was somewhat tongue i...My suggestion re Bellgraphic was somewhat tongue in cheek, of course. More serious, however, is the question of what practical use all this machine derived data is. At the end of the day, a good manager can assess the success of his bus service by hopping out of the office and looking. I suspect this delirious desire for data has at its heart the dismal and depressing disease of bad management.<br /><br />Or perhaps it results from the persuasive profit-generating patter of the people who persuade the operators to purchase the kit!<br /><br />Having just alienated to whole bus industry ....fatbusblokehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06833340546527596517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-24029160701675098382011-09-17T20:00:19.363+01:002011-09-17T20:00:19.363+01:00Although I must admit to being more pro-technology...Although I must admit to being more pro-technology than yourself and actually welcome these smart cards, I have to agree with you on the contactless option. It is very scary and has a massive potential to go horribly wrong. I still hope that it does work though. If this was being introduced by the governement then I would be even more worried. Hopefuly First will do a better jobdidbygrahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01858408719372985035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-9923995584866847952011-09-17T17:21:37.020+01:002011-09-17T17:21:37.020+01:00The problem with the Bellgraphic system is that, a...The problem with the Bellgraphic system is that, although the carbon copy will give the operator all of the details of the tickets issued, the analysis of that data in the 'back office' will be very time consuming and labour intensive, in comparison to the modern computerised machines. So I don't think that the first of your two pieces of timely advice is very likely to come true.<br /><br />The second one, regarding the contactless card payment, is rather a different matter, and I am inclined to agree with you. If I want to collect some of the cash in my bank account, I have to enter a PIN number at a cash machine; and if I want to make a payment via internet banking, then the rigmarole is even more complex. There will be a password, sometimes another number or a question about my second cousin twice removed's inside leg measurement, and then perhaps a little game with a sort of mini-calculator like device (or similar). Additionally, I will probably be exhorted to download some dubious piece of free software called Musketeer (or something like that) to make my own, private, computer more secure. Yet now, I can get a piece of plastic and wave it near some electronic device on a bus, which has probably been 'used' in that way by thousands of other people, to achieve basically the same result - transfer some money out of my bank account. There is a distinct inconsistency in the approach to security, and I think some suspicion is entirely justified.<br /><br />Incidentally, the red mudguards on the Trent Titan look awful!RC169https://www.blogger.com/profile/03921368833118123055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-18519146061902650772011-09-17T07:28:11.449+01:002011-09-17T07:28:11.449+01:00Thank you for bringing back memories of the Bellgr...Thank you for bringing back memories of the Bellgraphic Ticket machines.<br />I remember them as a child in the 1950s on the Hebble Bus Services between Halifax, Bradford and Leeds.<br />Carbon paper was high technology then!Stuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16117039843437261375noreply@blogger.com