Quote from: Bus 400 on March 11, 2024, 09:07:02 PMThere is OpalPay, AFAIK, this includes multiple private operators & their different fare systems.For those who are hard of hearing: Opal still uses stored-value Smartcards. From the very start, TC/ACT Government have wanted an account based system - since they offer more flexible fare arrangements and instant account top ups. (If you need a constant data connection to run your credit card payment system, you might as well go the whole way and run an account based fare system. The only advantage from using a Smartcard was not needing a permanent data connection, but it's now the 2020s, not the 2000s.)
I'd assume TC would be added to this, if needed.
Quote from: triumph on January 16, 2021, 10:52:20 PMWhilst Mark has had a go, like most Opposition pot shots, he has omitted to say what the Opposition would do or recommend be done? Costs, if the tenders/prices given to the buyer are not value for money and/or wildly in excess of a properly developed estimate, why wouldn't the buyer reject them? Does the Opposition want the project (and, for that matter, any project) to proceed when the price is not value for money, just so a date can be met?While fear-mongering about the 3G shutdown on ABC Radio last week, he did actually state what he would do: "piggyback onto the Opal system".