Just heard that the Bailleu Government is contemplating on scrapping the 1.4 billion dollar failed and unworkable Myki ticketing system.

The next question is where did all of the money go and who got it ??

I can't see 1.4 billion of value myself, so the only logical conclusion is that someone's swiss bank account is now full to the brink

Will there be an investigation into this major scam ?

Just based on the news reports, I could have told you that the Myki system was going to 'crash and burn'...

It was a ridiculously uncoordinated system from day ONE..

Absolutely..it wouldn't have matter WHICH group of idiot pollies brought it in...It was NEVER going to work...

And nails, almost certainly NO there will NOT be any sort of investigation..
The petty bureaucrats who rubber stamp these sort of idiotic plans, would leave no trails to the kick backs they get..


And bureaucrats do NOT change, from government to government

how come if you don't pay your tax for even a small amount you can go to jail ??

Doesn't seem fair does it !!

longweekend58 wrote on Dec 28^th, 2010 at 5:45pm:





$1.4 Billion dollars wasted, well to put that into the champagne socialists terms would be just a few containers of Dom Perignon and Moet just tipped down the sink!

It is good to see we have a pretty bi-partisan agreement on this topic, and the question of just how a "Contract" can continually have it's price renegotiated upwards, on the fly, does deserve to be thoroughly investigated, and any and all negligence, incompetence, or corruption, should be made public.
The principle of re-inventing the wheel, everytime someone in the public domain is tasked with delivering a project needs to be changed.
I know the effects in small things like information sharing in the Tertiary Education system for instance, is a source of great frustration for my wife who is a teacher.
When needing to set courses she has to start from scratch each time, rather than merely adapting and personalising a module that someone else has already created.
This not only leads to unnecessary duplication of effort, it also creates an uneven quality of delivery.

When Myki was first mooted, many suggested just adapting one of the ticketing systems that work well overseas, which would have been far less expensive, and far quicker to implement.
We do need to see a more pragmatic attitude developed in our government and public service departments, because every time we waste money in one area, we have to curtail funding to other areas.

So while I do not know if just writing Myki off, as a political gesture, is necessarily the best option, (it may be, but I really don't have enough knowledge of the system to say one way or the other) but I do know that all Victorians deserve to know just how and why this project was allowed to get so far off track, and if any criminal behaviour was involved, we should press for severe penalties being imposed upon any that a court of enquiry rules against.