NSW completes contactless payments rollout across Opal network
Transport for NSW has completed its rollout out of contactless payments technology across all modes of public transport covered by the Opal card system, two years after the first trial began.
Sydney’s rapid bus service between Bondi Beach and Circular Quay, dubbed ‘Bondi Link’, became one of the last bus route to begin accepting contactless payments via credit cards and smart devices on Monday.
Opal card system operator Cubic Transportation has been working with TfNSW, as well as the Commonwealth Bank and Mastercard to progressively bring the technology to the bus network since July.
Privately operated bus services in Sydney, the Central Coast, Blue Mountains and South Coast such as those by Transit Systems, Transdev, Busways and CDC were the first to receive the technology.
TfNSW contactless payments journey began in 2017, with a trial on Sydney’s longest ferry route used to test the Opal alternative on the simplest fare structure.
The payment option has since expanded twice: first to all ferries and the inner west light rail network in March 2018, and then Sydney’s metropolitan and regional heavy rail network.
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