'Scrap Tcard school system' says BCA

Darryl Mellish, executive director of the Parramatta-based Bus and Coach (BCA) Association, has urged the State Government to scrap the failed Tcard trial and revert to the paper bus pass system which has been running in parallel to the Tcard system which has proved a failure and the contract with its developer, ERG, has been cancelled.

The BCA was commenting after the government issued 30,000 Tcards, at a cost of $300,000, to new schoolchildren. “School Tcard has been a failure and no data has been produced to operators. Our preference was to scrap the school Tcard,” Mr Mellish said.