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Other Bus Companies Confirm They’ll HOP
Five more bus companies have confirmed they will offer the HOP card but it won’t happen to almost a year away. The companies are Ritchie’s Transport, Howick...
NZ Post & Aust Firm Win HOP Contract
Auckland Transport has awarded the tender to supply smartcards for the full stage roll out of Auckland’s HOP integrated smartcard to a joint consortium comprising...
RWC Transport Passes A Success
Auckland Transport is hailing the first attempt at a multi-mode transport card for Auckland as a success. 1228 special A-Passes were sold to RWC visitors. They were...
HOP Needs To Jump Elsewhere
When integrated ticketing was at last seriously mooted, some of us had a dream we could use the one card around the country for public transport. That is still the...
HOP Swap Starts
I noticed the new HOP assistants out and about today at Britomart train station and around the place. Go-Rider public transport card users on the North Shore have...
HOP Confusion Answered By AT
Confusing, conspiracy theories, cynical…..the reaction to the much-awaited Auckland integrated ticketing scheme HOP has not been as happy as one might have...
HOP Integrated Card Launched (Update)
Auckland Transport is today launching details of the first stage of its long awaited integrated ticketing, confirming the name of the tag on tag off smart card is...
Snapper Launched In Auckland
The Wellington-based Snapper Card, which will be one integrated ticketing option, has been officially launched this morning in Auckland although we haven’t...
Auckland Snapper Launches Wednesday
Snapper officially launches its entry into Auckland with a detailed announcement this coming Wednesday. Installation of smart card readers in Auckland’s NZ...
Integrated Ticketing Training Starts
NZ Bus has commenced training for the introduction of integrated ticketing for Auckland public transport. More than 1,000 drivers have to be trained. Over 80 shops...
How Much For A Smart Card?
How much should it cost to buy the new Auckland integrated ticketing card? In another sign of the new landscape, NZTA’s requirement that 50% of the cost of...
Integrated Ticketing Misses Capital
It’s disappointing to learn that there are no plans for Aucklanders to be able to use its official integrated ticketing card when they visit Wellington. I...
How It’s Looking: Tag Off Posts(Update)
And this is what the final tag on tag off integrated ticketing posts will look like: Crop circles on Morningside station? Maybe not. But as the Double Rainbow guy...
Taggers We Like
At last, a physical sign that integrated ticketing is really happening and in time for the RWC 2011, even if it’s not the complete package. This morning, construction...
Stations Get Integrated Wired
Construction works at train stations for integrated ticketing are getting underway. This comprises duucting and cabling ready for rail tag on and tag off devices...
Integrated Ticketing For RWC2011
Auckland Transport this afternoon revealed that integrated ticketing system- one smart card - is on track for a stage one launch before the Rugby World Cup...
Snapper Speed Test
Snapper card has put up a video showing a speed test between a Snapper transaction and a Chip and PIN credit card transaction. However there is the issue of security...
Fare Crackdown Working
ARTA says its crackdown on fare evasion is working. ARTA and Veolia launched ‘it’s fair to pay your fare’ customer driven initiative at Britomart and Newmarket...
Integrated Ticketing Milestone
Moves towards national integrated public transport ticketing have taken a big step forward today with the development of a key agreement between the NZTA and ticketing...
Stand By For StupidCard
As Snapper edges towards an Auckland release, Arta must be working on options for what to call the new integrated ticketing being developed by Thales for release...
Melbourne’s Myki Havoc
Melbourne’s integrated ticketing disaster just keeps getting worse. Victoria’s opposition MP Terry Mulder is good at digging into the state’s official...
Integrated Smartcard Ticketing To Get National Standard
Snapper is popular in Wellington With integrated ticketing around the corner, but Snapper already up and running in Wellington, the NZTA wants to develop a national...
Want To Control The Signals?
I didn’t realise they still had jobs going as signal box controllers. Veolia is advertising one for Pukekohe. Reporting to the service delivery manager, you...
myki’s Integrated Ticketing Disaster Continues
The introduction of the massively budget overblown integrated ticketing card for Victoria continues its incredible tale of disaster. The project has cost $1.35 billion...
How Auckland’s Integrated Ticketing Should Be In A Few Years! (Videos)
Reader James has just spent a week in Hong Kong and during his time there, bought an Octopus Card. It shows how great integrated smartcard ticketing will be for...
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