“Swap your HOP” confirmed
An article in today’s NZ Herald confirms that HOP cards will need to be changed over later this year to the new Thales system, enabling them to work on all buses, trains and ferries.
Auckland’s “integrated” public transport cards, introduced in May with a $1 million marketing budget from the public purse, will have to be replaced because they are not compatible with a new system for trains, ferries and some bus companies.…
29 Comments Better value for money from rail
While it’s certainly essential for Auckland to have a well functioning rail system, as we’re a growing city with little ability to squeeze more out of our roads particularly easily, the ‘turning around’ of Auckland rail system over the past decade has undoubtedly been an expensive – but necessary – task.…
Guest Post – Integrated ticketing: An idea
This is a Guest Post by reader and commenter Louis Mayo:
I think most readers of this blog will agree that Auckland’s public transport fare structure needs a complete overhaul and you will probably be aware of Auckland Transport’s plan to roll out integrated ticketing over the next year or so.…
HOP implementation advances (slowly)
Auckland Transport announced this afternoon that we’re another step towards implementing a proper integrated ticketing system:
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 Placard and NZ Post.…
Integrated ticketing moves forward (slowly)
Further detail on the painfully slow implementation of integrated ticketing in Auckland was outlined in the October business report to the board of Auckland Transport. With the project being somewhat distracted by the silly A-Pass over the past few months, hopefully with the World Cup out of the way we might start seeing some real progress in the next few months: There are two interesting things to note in the paragraph above, first is that in February next year we will start to see something of a further rollout – with what’s called the “Limited Functionality Pilot”.…
Improving Auckland’s PT: what we need to do
At last month’s meeting of the Auckland Council Transport Committee there was a very interesting “benchmark study” that compared a wide variety of measures of public transport in Auckland with a number of cities around the world. Inevitably, Auckland performed worst in most of the measures – even when compared against other cities like Perth, Brisbane and Calgary that have much lower population densities, traditionally seen as a fundamental reason for Auckland’s poor performance.…
July NZTA Board Papers
NZTA continue to refuse to publish their board papers online (even though they spend around $3 billion of taxpayers’ money a year), so in the cause of increased transparency I have been doing Official Information Act requests for their board papers for a while now.…
A-Pass launched for World Cup
The NZ Herald reports on the launch of a special public transport ticket for use during the Rugby World Cup, to be known as the “A-Pass”:
The A-Pass has been rushed into production to provide overseas visitors with the type of electronic transport ticket many will be used to in their home cities.…
Replay: Ticketing
In the early days of this blog I generally got about as many visitors in a month as I now do in a day. But there were some interesting posts written, many of which are still as relevant now as they were then.…
Guest Post: Postcard from Amsterdam
This is a Guest Post by regular commenter Stuart Donovan, who has spent much of the last year living in Amsterdam.
Frankly my dears I’d have to give A’dam the full “douze points.” Living in Amsterdam is like wandering around in the middle of a fairytale – you half expect Shrek and donkey to wander by at any moment. …
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