NSW Election 2019

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Libs won, and they promised to build LRT on the Tweed to connect with Coolangatta Airport.

That would be good if they can get it built over the next term. Think 1st stage is Tweed City to the border 2nd stage from the border to Ool in conjunction with the QLD Government:) Happy Days

[SurfRail]

I hope they leave that one on the backburner.  The worst thing that can happen is for them to build something that is not interoperable with our system.

Focus on running more buses throughout the Tweed and Northern Rivers for the next decade until we get to working on Stage 3B, then do the work jointly and get TransLink in control of the Tweed's bus and tram system (branding, ticketing and operations).  All they really need to work out is ticketing policy - who pays for what, what money gets repatriated back to NSW, how RED tickets are dealt with etc.

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^^If they do minor things first? Introducing Opal to the Tweed and Noerthern Rivers would be very helpful.

The touch on and off data would be very useful for many.

Plus the ability to touch on with a credit or debit card which is being rolled out in Sydney now.

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Tweed Daily------------------------->https://m.tweeddailynews.com.au/news/one-public-transport-system-on-way/3119327/

One public transport system on the way

by Mitchell Crawley

5th Dec 2016 2:06 PM

A SOLUTION'S in sight for frustrated Tweed public transport users who are currently forced to use two different ticketing systems depending on which side of the border they travel on.

Tweed MP Geoff Provest said the issue was one he had raised with the cross border commissioner and transport minister and was pleased to announce a resolution was in the works.

"The Go Card and the Opal Card are run by Cubic (Corporation), which is the same company; and one of the issues we always face here are the cross-border anomalies, where basically it's two different ticketing systems," Mr Provest said.

"There has been an old cross-border ticket but it's more expensive than most; and what we're seeking to do - and we've had discussions with Surfside (Buslines) - is to have one system for both sides of the border, so it will become seamless and the transport minister has committed to make that a reality."

Mr Provest said the new Queensland-NSW Memorandum of Understanding, which he expected to be approved before 2017, would set targets for matters on such issues as transport, health and law and order. He said once that was in place, work could begin to find a solution.

Tweed Heads West resident Ray Biddle, who regularity uses public transport across both states, welcomed the announcement, saying it would save him money.

"Concession card holders suffer; so this (issue) is about buying a concession trip from, say, inside South Tweed Heads and then into Queensland," Mr Biddle said. "It's all very well to do a bus change but then you have to buy another ticket; you can't buy a ticket to John Flynn Hospital, which in my case, that's where all the specialist advice is, not in the Tweed

^^Hello! Its 2019?

Looks like the Nationals have been voted back in here

PROVEST Geoff The Nationals

tweed@parliament.nsw.gov.au

Cross Border Commission

enquiries@cbc.nsw.gov.au

^^For anyone else interested in chasing this up?

[SurfRail]

IPART in NSW did not recommend pursuing that any further - which frankly is crazy, but there you go.

They did recommend joint ticketing for Albury and Wodonga, but not for us, or for the ACT and Queanbeyan/Murrumbateman/Yass - ie the 2 larger systems with mature smartcard systems operating on the foreign side of the border.

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It's good that they have sorted out the Albury Wodonga anomaly. This is a new term, see what they will do? There might be cause to revisit the Tweed-OOL situation,  If they are thinking of LRT something will need to be done for seamless ticketing prior?