Recently, I have had a new fascination - the colour of toll ticket.
Have you ever noticed that there is a line of colour on the toll tickets? So far, I have seen lines that are yellow, orange, red, blue and purple. At first, I thought that maybe different toll booths give out different colours. NOT TRUE! The same toll booth can give tickets of different colours. Then I thought that maybe the colour varies according to the time of the day. This hypothesis was also proven NOT TRUE.
What other criteria can there be? To this question, I still have not found the answer. If there is no meaning to the colour, then why do they even bother producing tickets with different colours? Won't it be easier to just produce just one standard colour?
Another matter that Rajiv and I were arguing about is whether the toll ticket is recycled or not. According to Rajiv, the East-West Highway reuse their toll tickets - proven by the condition of the tickets which is 'lusuh' (can't think of the word for now).
But then, the North-South Highway ticket is always in a perfect condition. And they always print the time and date ON THE TICKET. So, I guess they can't reuse it. However, if the don't reuse it, why don't they just give the ticket back to us? Why do they collect it at the exit? And why is it that they don't reuse the tickets? Won't it safe them money? Why not put electronic chips in the tickets so that they can be reused? KR said that maybe the cost of doing that is too expensive and that it's cheaper to use new, normal tickets. But then what is the function of the black line on the ticket then? In the end, we could not come up with any answers, but, a conclusion was made that maybe they do recycle the tickets, but then they don't reuse the ticket (hope you manage to understand what I mean).
Then, one day, (after watching Madagascar2), Rajiv and I took the highway back. have a look at the picture of the ticket that we received (it was late night and it was dark and I used the phone camera, so the picture is a bit blur).
Anyway, if you notice, this ticket is orange in colour.
It has the usual printed information about the time and date that the ticket was produced, but then, the printed date is 01.11.2008. And at the right side, you see a stamp with the actual date - 13.11.2008. So, I guess they do reuse the tickets. I don't know whether this is a normal occurence or not..and unfortunately, it didn't help answer any of my above questions.
p/s the ticket still looked new.
So many unanswered questions about toll tickets. If anyone knows the answers, PLEASE tell me, because I would really, really like to know.
Have you ever noticed that there is a line of colour on the toll tickets? So far, I have seen lines that are yellow, orange, red, blue and purple. At first, I thought that maybe different toll booths give out different colours. NOT TRUE! The same toll booth can give tickets of different colours. Then I thought that maybe the colour varies according to the time of the day. This hypothesis was also proven NOT TRUE.
What other criteria can there be? To this question, I still have not found the answer. If there is no meaning to the colour, then why do they even bother producing tickets with different colours? Won't it be easier to just produce just one standard colour?
Another matter that Rajiv and I were arguing about is whether the toll ticket is recycled or not. According to Rajiv, the East-West Highway reuse their toll tickets - proven by the condition of the tickets which is 'lusuh' (can't think of the word for now).
But then, the North-South Highway ticket is always in a perfect condition. And they always print the time and date ON THE TICKET. So, I guess they can't reuse it. However, if the don't reuse it, why don't they just give the ticket back to us? Why do they collect it at the exit? And why is it that they don't reuse the tickets? Won't it safe them money? Why not put electronic chips in the tickets so that they can be reused? KR said that maybe the cost of doing that is too expensive and that it's cheaper to use new, normal tickets. But then what is the function of the black line on the ticket then? In the end, we could not come up with any answers, but, a conclusion was made that maybe they do recycle the tickets, but then they don't reuse the ticket (hope you manage to understand what I mean).
Then, one day, (after watching Madagascar2), Rajiv and I took the highway back. have a look at the picture of the ticket that we received (it was late night and it was dark and I used the phone camera, so the picture is a bit blur).
Anyway, if you notice, this ticket is orange in colour.
It has the usual printed information about the time and date that the ticket was produced, but then, the printed date is 01.11.2008. And at the right side, you see a stamp with the actual date - 13.11.2008. So, I guess they do reuse the tickets. I don't know whether this is a normal occurence or not..and unfortunately, it didn't help answer any of my above questions.
p/s the ticket still looked new.
So many unanswered questions about toll tickets. If anyone knows the answers, PLEASE tell me, because I would really, really like to know.
3 comments:
The North-South Highway that i usually take,has green lines and the time and date is printed.The only time i came across stamped tickets was during Raya Peak traffic hours.
I guess they do recycle the tickets but if they are running short of time and resources they just 'refurbish' the tickets to look like new and stamp on a new date.
Then again i'm just guessing.
To be environment friendly and cut cost, they actually reuse the ticket. But it's pretty confusing when the dates are different.
Call the toll free num....pastuh try tanye them...hahahaha...
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