In late 2023, the WA government announced the modernisation of the SmartRider system would be complete by mid-2024. Months on, the Public Transport Authority is still installing new card readers ...

WA's auditor-general has found 10 major WA government IT projects, including an upgrade to the SmartRider public transport system, are a total of $1.6 billion over budget. Other projects contributing ...

Jack Carruthers, a student at Murdoch University in Perth, managed to hack into the city’s public transport travel smartcard with a classmate. According to the Public Transport Authority (PTA) of ...

School students have been slugged more than $821,000 for not tagging on and off public transport in Western Australia despite it being free. The state government issued $100 fines to 8214 students ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Two Perth IT students who conducted a "research project" into SmartRiders have been found guilty of ...

The state government issued $100 fines to 8214 students under the Ride to School Free Program for failing to tag on and off trains, buses and ferries with their Student SmartRider card. The opposition ...

Perth residents are no closer to being able to use their phones or debit cards to tag on for public transport because a highly anticipated SmartRider upgrade is six-and-a-half years behind schedule ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. West Australian school students are copping huge fines for not using their Student SmartRider card despite public transport being ...