So apparently a transfer from State Library to Melbourne Central will be conside as an entire trip, even if one does not catch the train. Wouldn’t it make sense to combine Melbourne Central and State Library into one station?
Surely Boggo Road CRR and Boggo Road Merivale would be considered as a single station despite the new CRR station being a bit of a walk from the surface-level station.
Seems a bit odd the Melbourne interpretation. Myki has a two hour transfer window. No different to say touching off on a bus at Roma St busway and then touching on again at the fare gates for rail.
I’m led to believe there is no actual issue. If you touch on at the Melbourne Central gateline, walk through the common concourse and touch off at the State Library gateline, you don’t get charged unless you take longer than 15 minutes to walk the roughly 50 metres. It would be comparable to using the Roma Street concourse to get from the CBD to the parklands via Platform 10, which some people (myself included) would do by touching on at one end and cancelling at the other to exit. In Melbs you get 15 minutes - I think we get 20 (somebody correct me if needed).
There seems to have been some mixed messaging about this, but it appears the “solution” in Melbourne is to keep a gate open so you can walk through either gateline. (Fare evasion is Melbourne’s real national sport after all.)
It doesn’t really matter up here anymore, but since you will need to exit Boggo Road CRR through a gateline and then touch on when transferring to the surface platforms, you would hope the system can work out that is continuation travel. It should be able to - more than a decade ago I tested this out in Surfers by touching on and off between different pairs of readers on light rail platforms (ie touch on at Cavill Ave, walk to Surfers Paradise and touch off, walk to Northcliffe and touch on, catch tram onwards and touch off on alighting).
I was under the impression that CRR PIDs will have the same functionality, as well as being replicated on the APPs
Wasn’t one of the RATLR meetings about splitting platforms up into 6 bays for that reason including Central and Roma Street?
Thanks, good to know.
Agree. Even if someone is travelling by train, touch off, walkway, touch on - transfer.
Not travelling, touch on, touch off within 15 minutes, cancels touch on at a rail station.