Comments on: Dodgy tendering – welcome to the Victorian public transport system http://www.juzzy.id.au/wp/2008/03/26/dodgy-tendering-welcome-to-the-victorian-public-transport-system/ politics, art, vegan, Melbourne, life, and just stuff... Mon, 05 May 2008 06:50:40 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Cal_t http://www.juzzy.id.au/wp/2008/03/26/dodgy-tendering-welcome-to-the-victorian-public-transport-system/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Cal_t Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:30:34 +0000 http://www.juzzy.id.au/wp/2008/03/26/dodgy-tendering-welcome-to-the-victorian-public-transport-system/#comment-27 As a transport enthusiast, I always knew that myki would come late. Nothing in Australia, let alone Victoria is developed ontime when it comes to public projects. Except where it concerns roads. The backing behind the KAMCO group (part of which is Keane and ERG group) is that it came on the faith that Keane did the background work for the initial tender requirements and knew what it would be doing, and that ERG, already running the Metcard system thru the Onelink Consortium, would be able to give its input and do civil engineering world quickly. This has turned out true, all the essential public infrastructure work has been complete. The backing plates and ticketing stands are all over Victoria. It certainly doesn't help that this system cover the entirety of Victoria. Such a system has not been completed before and cannot be bought off the shelf. As well as that, Keane has just been bought out by an Indian company. You know how Indians work right? Lazy pathetic, no matter what industry they work in. So while we wait and twiddle our thumbs, myki will still go ahead, albeit a bit late, as the Transport Ticketing Authority restructure itself to stop sucking money from government, and Keane to employ new programmers. myki is a complicated thing and I never envisioned it to be an easy task. It is now going thru its 12th software revision and we be field tested in Geelong for the 2nd time during late 2008. One only hopes that the success will make the roll out quicker. There are benefits to having myki, it means no pre planning, no multiple tickets, as it will work out the cheapest fare. Even the Go card in Queensland doesn't have fare capping yet, and it took London's oyster's 3-4 year's worth of development after initial launch to bring the ticket up to its paper version's equivalence. Brining the project directly into public hands makes endless bureaucratic procedures a nightmare and nothing would get done. I have worked in low levels of both state and federal entities and I can tell you that it's not efficient to be public. The TTA is setup as a private run business of the state and thus is as close as you can get to being public run. After myki is developed, the TTA will own such a system and can export it to whomever it wants. myki is only for the best. As a transport enthusiast, I always knew that myki would come late. Nothing in Australia, let alone Victoria is developed ontime when it comes to public projects. Except where it concerns roads.

The backing behind the KAMCO group (part of which is Keane and ERG group) is that it came on the faith that Keane did the background work for the initial tender requirements and knew what it would be doing, and that ERG, already running the Metcard system thru the Onelink Consortium, would be able to give its input and do civil engineering world quickly. This has turned out true, all the essential public infrastructure work has been complete. The backing plates and ticketing stands are all over Victoria.

It certainly doesn’t help that this system cover the entirety of Victoria. Such a system has not been completed before and cannot be bought off the shelf.

As well as that, Keane has just been bought out by an Indian company. You know how Indians work right? Lazy pathetic, no matter what industry they work in.

So while we wait and twiddle our thumbs, myki will still go ahead, albeit a bit late, as the Transport Ticketing Authority restructure itself to stop sucking money from government, and Keane to employ new programmers. myki is a complicated thing and I never envisioned it to be an easy task. It is now going thru its 12th software revision and we be field tested in Geelong for the 2nd time during late 2008. One only hopes that the success will make the roll out quicker.

There are benefits to having myki, it means no pre planning, no multiple tickets, as it will work out the cheapest fare. Even the Go card in Queensland doesn’t have fare capping yet, and it took London’s oyster’s 3-4 year’s worth of development after initial launch to bring the ticket up to its paper version’s equivalence.

Brining the project directly into public hands makes endless bureaucratic procedures a nightmare and nothing would get done. I have worked in low levels of both state and federal entities and I can tell you that it’s not efficient to be public. The TTA is setup as a private run business of the state and thus is as close as you can get to being public run. After myki is developed, the TTA will own such a system and can export it to whomever it wants. myki is only for the best.

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