Without any fanfare and unnoticed by the local media , these new ticket machines, with more than 20 buttons, have been installed in Townsville buses . They look like mini juke boxes or part of a new feminine touch to the gadgets in Doctor Who's Tardis. The fashionable space age looking machine has a card swipe facility on the top , but there are no cards available , so many buttons have to be punched to produce a ticket. A bus driver described the gizmos as second hand , from south .
