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LRT Autofare bus tickets
Recently I found a few old LRT bus tickets, which I had collected back in the mid 1980s. These "Autofare" tickets had been the standard issue on LRT buses for at least 10 years, but were being phased out by the time these examples were issued. The replacement Autofare 3 system had been trialled for a few years in some of the new LRT National 2s and Olympians; however eventually LRT settled on the Wayfarer II system from 1985 onwards. I must have saved these tickets as souvenirs when the new Wayfarer II tickets became more prevalent.
I could never understand what all of the serial numbers on these tickets meant, yet they obviously did mean something - I distinctly remember the humiliation of being walked downstairs by a ticket inspector to pay an excess fare one day when I had underpaid the fare by 5p! This information leaflet about similar Autofare tickets from WMPTE has an explanation of the codes - presumably the LRT system must have been similar.
The Autofare ticket machine made a distinctive collection of mechanical noises before spitting out the ticket into the hopper - sometimes more noises than others. It also wasn't unusual for the ticket machine to have run out of tickets completely. Was the little picture of the bus conductor proclaiming "Go by bus" unique to LRT, or was it a feature of all Autofare tickets?
LRT Autofare bus tickets
Recently I found a few old LRT bus tickets, which I had collected back in the mid 1980s. These "Autofare" tickets had been the standard issue on LRT buses for at least 10 years, but were being phased out by the time these examples were issued. The replacement Autofare 3 system had been trialled for a few years in some of the new LRT National 2s and Olympians; however eventually LRT settled on the Wayfarer II system from 1985 onwards. I must have saved these tickets as souvenirs when the new Wayfarer II tickets became more prevalent.
I could never understand what all of the serial numbers on these tickets meant, yet they obviously did mean something - I distinctly remember the humiliation of being walked downstairs by a ticket inspector to pay an excess fare one day when I had underpaid the fare by 5p! This information leaflet about similar Autofare tickets from WMPTE has an explanation of the codes - presumably the LRT system must have been similar.
The Autofare ticket machine made a distinctive collection of mechanical noises before spitting out the ticket into the hopper - sometimes more noises than others. It also wasn't unusual for the ticket machine to have run out of tickets completely. Was the little picture of the bus conductor proclaiming "Go by bus" unique to LRT, or was it a feature of all Autofare tickets?