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Jeff Kennett, at great expense, gave Melbourne an automated ticketing system. It’s just like the ones in San Francisco’s underground or Sydney or Singapore. Today a lot of the gates were locked open at Parliament Station, but people slotted their tickets in before progressing through.

Aside: the Met, the Muni, the Tube, the many names of the public transport system or one of its parts…

Aside: quote of the day as we rose out of the station, “People at parties love to ask us questions about surgery, so we thought ‘let’s throw a party and invite people along to see for themselves’.”