Touching on with just a credit card at train stations and on trams and buses is one major upgrade expected when the Andrews government signs a new contract to run the system this year.
Ticketing technology used by some of the world’s largest and best public transport networks could be rolled out in Victoria when the state decides on the future of its outdated myki system.
Public Transport Users Association spokesman Daniel Bowen said payments via bank cards or smartphones would be the most important upgrade for myki, especially since passengers could not buy the $6 myki cards on trams or buses.Jason South Cubic, which has installed “contactless” ticketing in Sydney, London and recently New York, is considered a frontrunner.
Thales made an expression of interest in a partnership with MTR, the Hong Kong rail operator that also owns 60 per cent of Melbourne’s Metro Trains, in early 2022, but the Victorian Department of Transport notified it soon after that it had not made the shortlist of final bidders, sources said. Victoria first signed a $1 billion contract with Kamco in 2005 to develop the myki card system, which replaced the ageing paper Metcard system, and run it for 10 years but suffered a three-year delay and $550 million cost blowout.
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