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The card was issued to the general community including school and tertiary students on 7 March 2011. ACTION's old magnetic strip tickets continued to be valid during a transition period until 11 April 2011. [3] In September 2017, Transport Canberra began looking for a replacement ticketing system to coincide with the opening of the light rail.
In 1993 a report by Maunsell-Denis Johnston and Associates found that a dedicated inter-town busway was a more viable transport option for Canberra than light rail. [11] In 1994, the ACT Government commissioned a study into light rail, based on the findings of an independent report that light rail would be viable in Canberra by 1998. [12]
The Canberra Metro light rail system provides service within the city itself as part of Canberra's public transport network. [5] It opened in April 2019, its development coinciding with a resurgent focus on urban train transport in Australia. [6] The initial 12-kilometre (7.5 mi) line runs from the city centre to the northern suburbs. [7]
The Alinga Street light rail station with the Jolimont Centre on the left. Transport in Canberra is provided by private cars, buses, taxis and light rail for travel within the city, while regional rail, air, and long-distance coach services operate for travel beyond Canberra. A vast road network also plays a major role in transport within and ...
Alinga Street light rail station is the terminus of the Canberra Metro R1 light rail line. It opened on 20 April 2019. As the main connection point for bus services to Canberra's southern districts as well as to Queanbeyan and Yass, Alinga Street is by far the busiest station on the route, with 37% of all light rail passengers beginning or ending a journey here in the first 10 months of operation.
Transport Canberra (TC) is the transport agency equivalent in the ACT, in charge of managing Canberra's public transport network, including ACTION buses and Canberra Light Rail, as well as active travel. It was formed from combining the public transport division of the TAMS with Capital Metro Agency, the agency in charge of the light rail project.
Light rail service began in April 2019. As the northern terminus of Canberra Metro's R1 route, Gungahlin Place is the second busiest light rail station on the network, with 20% of all passengers boarding or alighting a service here in the first 10 months of operation. [2]
Dickson Interchange is a transport interchange in Dickson, an inner-northern suburb of Canberra. The interchange allows transfers between the Canberra Metro light rail network and local ACTION bus services. As part of the construction of the Civic to Gungahlin light rail line, a new $4 million bus interchange opened in 2018. [1]