Criticisms
The myki ticketing system has been criticised on a number of grounds:
- Necessity: critics, such as the PTUA, questioned why a new ticketing system was needed, when Melbourne already had an adequate one. The Metcard validating equipment already had built-in support for a contactless ticket (the yellow circles on the front of current Metcard machines, as well as on TVMs).
- Its total cost of $1.5 billion.
- The project has taken far longer than originally planned. It began in May 2005 with a scheduled delivery date of March 2007. The implementation as of June 2012 is not finally done.
- Privacy: the then State Opposition expressed concern over the data collection and sharing used by myki, claiming that the Government was breaching its own Information Privacy Act.
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