Infratil Still Lobbying Hard Over Integrated Ticketing Decision

Posted by Jon C in TicketingNov 7th, 2009 | 4 responses

They just won’t go away.

The decision has been made to go with Thales, ARTA’s choice, for an integrated ticket for public transport to be rolled out throughout the whole country.

That’s the overseas company Infratil’s Snapper CEO publicly labels Thailes “the French armaments company,” which makes it sound part of some axis of evil.

It’s actually a company to be doing amazingly complex integrated ticketing jobs around the world – as shown in the videos of the amazing recent job in Dubai with the modern Dubai Metro system.

After months of waiting for officials to sign off on ARTA’s chosen pathway to ticketing, and us finally getting the good news, it would have been too much to expect Snapper to lie down and accept it.

Take a read of their latest successful lobbying around influential people.

No doubt, they’ve also been busy knocking on Beehive doors this week.



4 Responses to “Infratil Still Lobbying Hard Over Integrated Ticketing Decision”

  1. Steve says:
    November 7, 2009 at 10:31 am

    In some ways you have to feel sorry for the Snapper subsidary of Infratil. If NZ Bus were not getting so offside with ARTA over the drivers contract dispute they may have had more of a chance..

  2. jarbury says:
    November 7, 2009 at 2:47 pm

    If Snapper was not a part of Infratil then I would not have much of a problem with them, except a mild annoyance that they just can’t let things go.

    lHowever, Infratil has really done nothing good for Auckland’s public transport system. They are trying to kill off the PublicTransport Management Act, look at the mess they made with the bus lockout, and now this.

  3. nzbcfanboi says:
    November 7, 2009 at 5:29 pm

    And as far i know the Thales system could go in taxis and be used for small purchases it just a matter of buying readers that work with it and connecting it up to ARTA’s IT system

  4. Jeremy Harris says:
    November 7, 2009 at 10:58 pm

    Feel sorry for Snapper..? When I’m deep in the cold. cold ground…

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