{"id":69868,"date":"2024-06-21T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=3820c829bc85f56c063f6f8687aeeef6"},"modified":"2024-06-21T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T20:00:29","slug":"nationwide-contactless-payment-system-coming-for-public-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=69868","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide contactless payment system coming for public transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new nationwide ticketing system will soon allow\u00a0public transport\u00a0users to pay via contactless cards and other digital payment methods.<\/p>\n<p>The National Ticketing Solution (NTS) will allow payments by contactless debit or credit cards, as well as digital payment methods like Apple Pay and Google Pay.<\/p>\n<p>It will start in Auckland later this year and be in use across the country by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Transport Minister Simeon Brown said the NTS would make public transport services\u00a0more convenient, easier to use, and deliver a consistent experience no matter where Kiwis were or what service they were using.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new nationwide ticketing system will soon allow\u00a0public transport\u00a0users to pay via contactless cards and other digital payment methods. The National Ticketing<\/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-69868","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\/69868","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=69868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69871,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69868\/revisions\/69871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}