Published Friday, 30 November, 2012 at 04:55 AM
Minister for Transport and Main Roads
The Honourable Scott Emerson
go card touches on CityCycle
Transport and Main Roads Minister Scott Emerson said go card holders would be able to link to a CityCycle account from Friday.
“By working together the Queensland Government and the Brisbane City Council are about to make it even easier to transfer between bus, train, ferry and now bicycle,” Mr Emerson said.
“It’s the first time go card has been linked to a function other than public transport.
“Despite making perfect sense the Labor government buried their head in ideological sand falsely claiming go card users would be liable for, or propping up, CityCycle in some way.
“Instead, under the LNP both levels of government have been able to work together and deliver for active transport and public transport users at no additional cost.”
CityCycle account holders can go on-line (www.citycycle.com.au) to link their accounts to their go card. go cards will still be able to be topped up in the usual way – on line, auto top-up or at a go card retailer or ticket machine.
Both accounts currently remain separate and the discounts and incentives that apply to both schemes remain separate.
Council Public and Active Transport Chairman Peter Matic said the ability to move seamlessly between the different types of transport was an exciting step forward for the growing CityCycle scheme.
“CityCycle is growing, is now used by an average of 4,500 people a week and has been used on more than 300,000 trips since its inception two years ago,” Mr Matic said.
“Having the go card linked with CityCycle will help encourage people to use public or active transport and reduce congestion on our roads.
“I’m pleased that both levels of government, working with contractors Cubic (go card) and JCDecaux (CityCycle) have been able to make this breakthrough.”
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