TransLink reveals details about smart card system
Posted June 25, 2011 1:40 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – TransLink continues to firm-up plans for the new smart card system that will be unrolled in 2013. Ken Hardie with TransLink says a “tap-on, tap-off” structure is being considered.
“One of the key things that we’re mulling right now with the Compass Card is whether people will tap on, and they will do that when they get onto the SkyTrain or a bus, and whether they tap off, especially on buses.”
“And that gives us all sorts of data as to how we can design the transit system, but it also moves us a lot more closely to the fare according to distance payment structure.”
He tells News1130, they’re trying to gauge public support for that kind of distance-based payment system. “If in fact the public really supports fare according to distance, we can fine tune it so that it’s fair in the other sense as well,” Hardie adds.
He says they’re also getting ideas from other cities around the world with similar systems.
