OLD FARECARD READERS

• vasanth

  30 Jul 04, 13:17

  I hope that it would be possible for us to look at the evolution of fare payment from the 70's to the present.
• ^tamago^

  30 Jul 04, 18:22

  i give a brief one:
  
  70's: Two-Man Operation (TMO) with conductor & punch-hole tickets
  80's: Saw the conversion to One-Man Operation with a fare console and a ticket printer. When Tibs came around in 1983, it started with Distance-Related Fare (DRF) and Hybrid (i need to read my 1985 guide on this). SMRT used magnetic farecards since its opening in 1987.
  90's: Buses change over to Magnetic Farecard system (sometime in 1994?) with fare validators on-board and new fare consoles.
  
  14th Jan 2002: Selective preview of the ez-link card system on buses begins on services 15, 78, 100, 105, 158, 176, 261, 302, 357, 358, 507, 913 and 960. Some 45,000 participants of the previous bus and rail Super Rider Smart Card pilot tests have been invited to preview the new ez-link Card before its official launch. The selected participants will be able to buy and use the ez-link Card on the MRT/LRT system and selected bus services.
  23rd Mar 2002: The public launch of a smart card for buses and the MRT, originally set for this week, has been put off after a computer bug forced the shutdown of a trial run on the system
  24th Mar 2002: Commuters can start using the new ez-link smart cards for MRT and bus rides (if they have the LTA pilot contactless smart card)
  13th Apr 2002: ez-link cards started going on sale. parallel systems are used
  1st Jul 2002: Senior citizens can purchase an Interim Senior Citizen ez-link card for use on buses and train from Monday 1 Jul 2002, when fares go up
  1st Oct 2002: Students and national servicemen can go to any TransitLink ticket office and pay to get their ez-link cards encoded with BCP, TCP or HCP
  14th Oct 2002: SMRT started dispensing single-trip contactless smart cards
  16th Nov 2002: Magnetic farecards will no longer be sold or revalued.
  1st Dec 2002: Magnetic Farecard system is phased out on Sunday,
• sbst275

  30 Jul 04, 20:07

  I thought 170 only went OMO in 1993?
  
  It was also the last to implement Ez-link
• sbst275

  31 Jul 04, 17:17

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  I thought 170 only went OMO in 1993?
  
  It was also the last to implement Ez-link

  How did the TMO worked on 170 when there was the magnetic card?
• tranquilice

  31 Jul 04, 17:49

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  How did the TMO worked on 170 when there was the magnetic card?

  If I remember correctly, service 170 became OMO in late 80s.
• sbst275

  31 Jul 04, 17:57

  Originally posted by tranquilice:

  If I remember correctly, service 170 became OMO in late 80s.

  No, 1993
  
  I saw a poster on board 170 bus years back. It was written in Chinese
• tranquilice

  31 Jul 04, 18:08

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  No, 1993
  
  I saw a poster on board 170 bus years back. It was written in Chinese

  Why only in Chinese?
• sbst275

  31 Jul 04, 18:16

  Originally posted by tranquilice:

  Why only in Chinese?

  Sorry, after checking my photo, it was 1995
  
  It saw this in 2001, so probably it was not cleared
  
  Anyway, there was a conversion to FAC sv for 170 on board the Non aircon buses