{"id":149733,"date":"2024-11-15T18:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=0ecdbf1d0bca85d54e3673409d12ea26"},"modified":"2024-11-15T18:00:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T08:00:57","slug":"contactless-payments-to-begin-on-auckland-public-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=149733","title":{"rendered":"Contactless payments to begin on Auckland public transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new\u00a0contactless payment system\u00a0will be rolled out across Auckland\u2019s public transport from this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Starting on November 17, public transport users in the city will have\u00a0[three options available](https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/nz-news\/350317776\/nationwide-contactless-payment-system-coming-public-transport)\u00a0when they use buses, trains, and most ferries.<\/p>\n<p>Contactless credit and debit cards, smartphones, or wearable devices to tag on and off, will be available for use, alongside AT Hop cards.<\/p>\n<p>Until now public transport users were required to purchase an AT Hop card for most trips.<\/p>\n<p>AT spokesperson Stacey van der Putten said the change was designed to offer greater accessibility for users, and AT hoped it would open up public transport to more people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new\u00a0contactless payment system\u00a0will be rolled out across Auckland\u2019s public transport from this Sunday. Starting on November 17, public transport users in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149734,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149733\/revisions\/149734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}