MyKi Sux Even Before It Arrives
Nov 6th, 2009 by squizzmaster
It’s been a long time coming, the MyKi system to be introduced soon so let me summarize the main points THIS Age article covers.
- Nobody knows when it will be released in Melbourne
- Rather than buy an off-the-shelf smartcard system and adapting Victoria’s fare structure to suit, the Government opted to start from scratchContract delays
- The US company Keane — operating as Keane Australia Micropayments, or Kamco — won the bid in 2005. “Keane had no corporate experience in developing, implementing and operating a ticketing system,” the leaked audit report said. “Keane has barely demonstrated adequate capability.” The report also revealed that the Transport Ticketing Authority had employed Keane in 2004 to design crucial elements of the tendering brief.”
- “After the long delays came the budget blow-out: last June Premier John Brumby announced Keane would receive another $350 million, for reasons that are still unclear”
- “myki will cost at least $1.35 billion over the next decade”
- 3 years late in Melbourne
- Brisbane agency Clemenger Harvey Edge paid $400,000 for a MyKi Campaign Melbourne never got to see
- 10,850 cases of overcharging on regional buses
- Tickets were taking more than one second to register each smartcard – imagine this at Metro peak time
- “Myki’s billion-dollar price tag is the equivalent of buying, over the next decade, at least 65 new trains, which could solve the city’s current overcrowding problems.”
- “The Metcard system could also have been turned into a basic smartcard system for about $220 million”
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