[VIC] Antwerp's ticketing system

[Paul Dwerryhouse <paul+usenet@dwerryhouse.com.au>]

Hi all,
 
I've just spent the weekend in Antwerp, Belgium, where the ticketing system 
on their trams, buses and pre-metro looks suspiciously like MetCrud - in terms
of the ticket and validator shape.
 
Does anyone know if the mob who did Melbourne's system also had a hand
in Antwerp's system? Presumably it was done earlier than Melbourne's - the
validators look a bit older.
 
Interestingly enough, the validators had a bunch of buttons on the front of
them, labelled [10+], [1], [2] ... [10]. Not sure what they were for, but
my guess would be to allow more than one person to travel on a multi-trip
ticket, which can't be done on Melbourne's system.
 
Seems like a easy enough way to solve that problem, anyway. I wonder why
they didn't build it into Metcrud...
 
Cheers,
 
Paul.

-- 
Paul Dwerryhouse (paul@dwerryhouse.com.au)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.    <---- current location
Melbourne, Australia.