News & Discussion: Public Transport Contracts, Service & Policy

[Hooligan]

If you're catching a train from Noarlunga and are illergic to walking 500m catch the train into the city and then catch the show express back out.

It's not rocket surgery.

[claybro]

If you're catching a train from Noarlunga and are illergic to walking 500m catch the train into the city and then catch the show express back out.

It's not rocket surgery

But adds half an hour to the journey, and you are travelling straight past your destination in order to turn around and come back. We are spending hundreds of millions upgrading this line and yet a major attraction along this line is not directly serviced , with only a token shuttle service. Its not that i cant be bothered walking 500m, it is just would not be necessary if the main staion was adjacent to the showgrounds (not to mention the large complex of flats across the road.) We should encourage more people out of their cars and to do this PT must be made more convinent. With the constrction of a proper showgrounds station and park and ride adjacent Leader Street, the showgrounds could be further developed into a full scale convention site, maybe even bring back trotting and possible greyhound racing, all serviced by a proper inegrated train station.

[claybro]

Completely agree alonzo, however due to Government induced population increases and increased suburban density (from both sides of politics) our PT infastrucure needs to be upgraded to meet requirements. This includes functional roads and in particular a railway system that actually delivers commuters to where they need/want to go. This could easily be achieved with consolidation and moving of some stations. Our casual laid back 20minute drive city is fast becoming a thing of the past and probably not sustainable into the future.

[Port Adelaide Fan]

Trial results due for SA's new Metrocard public transport ticketing system

THE roll-out of South Australia's new public transport smartcard ticketing system, Metrocard, is one step closer with the results of a six-month trial by about 6000 commuters about to be made public.

The State Government is spending about $42 million on the system which is due to be rolled out by early 2013.

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[Pants]

Saw in the AN comments on that article that some people are getting them from newsagents rather than having been selected for the trial. Does anyone know where to get them?

[Port Adelaide Fan]

Public transport Metrocard ticketing up and running on SA buses, trams and trains by November

SOUTH Australians will be able to use the new Metrocard public transport smartcard ticketing system from November.

With 10,000 people currently using the new system, Transport Services Minister Chloe Fox announced today that the trials and extensive testing have paved the way for the $42 million system to be introduced in a matter of months.

"The Metrocard and smartcard will be fully operational by the end of November," Ms Fox said.

"What this card actually enables people to do is, at the end of the day, move around faster.

"You can get on board your train and your bus even more quickly than you could before."

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[monotonehell]

"What this card actually enables people to do is, at the end of the day, move around faster.

What about the rest of the day?

[PeFe]

According to tonight's media reports re the early introduction of the Metrocard, the SA government is "considering" phasing out paper tickets after 12 months of successful Metrocard operation. Controversial.....the Victorian government are phasing out Metcard forcing everyone to acquire a Myki card....what about occasional public transport users and tourists? The SA government could always follow the London example where single tickets are so prohibitively expensive that everybody (including the tourists) ends up buying an Oyster card.
I also believe that Brisbane works the same way where if you buy a single ticket you pay 30% more hence a lot of visitors end up buying a Go Card. You could also sell a Tourist Metrocard (with tourist information etc) that refunds the $5 purchase price to non-SA residents (proof of non-residence required like a drivers licence or passport).

[Tonsley213]

They are not phasing out the blue paper tickets. The media dont actually understand how our ticket structure is now so the just speak blindly from press releases, they only want the news report to sound good, they're not all that interested in being accurate.

[[Shuz]]

Actually, there seems to be some indication already that they will. I've noted on the trams and trains several of the Metrocard validators don't even have the Crouzet ticket slot in them and are much smaller.

[Tonsley213]

If you notice that every bus have a ticket slot. It has always going to be the case of the paper tickets being only daytrips and single trips.

Those without ticket slots are for the metro card only, there is no need to have 4 ticket slots per entry way as almost all people getting on the trains atm use multitrips which are replaced by the metrocard.

Only the occasional person will have a paper ticket.

[PeFe]

I never said that paper tickets would be phased out when Metrocard is fully implemented.....what I said was that after 12 months of successful Metrocard operation the government would "review" the future of single tickets. I watched the Chloe Fox press conference from yesterday on Yahoo 7 News and those are her words.(Unfortunately the press conference video is no longer on the website otherwise I would have provided a link) Also why is the daytrip a paper ticket? Is the software not good enough to calculate fares accumulated after 9am and cap them at $9 before 4 am of the next day? Or work out that it's a Saturday and every fare contributes towards the day trip? Just asking.....

[Tonsley213]

Well it's not smart enough to not charge you when walking through the gate in ARS.

Visitors to the state that Would buy a daytrip for their very boring adventure in Adelaide would not have a smart card.

Why don't they make all the transport ticketing systems interchangeable with each other.

[Will]

Well it's not smart enough to not charge you when walking through the gate in ARS.

Visitors to the state that Would buy a daytrip for their very boring adventure in Adelaide would not have a smart card.

Why don't they make all the transport ticketing systems interchangeable with each other.

Was that really necessary?

[Tonsley213]

No, but it has merit. Look at what Melbourne has to offer, then look at Adelaide in any month other than march.