From Tuesday 26/11 Canberra’s bus and light rail services will begin charging fares again as they introduce a new ticketing system.
The new system allows users to tap on and off at a validator with a new MyWay+ transport card or certain contactless bank cards.
It also allows users to pay using their digital wallet or through a new app, but there is some set up involved in those payment methods.
The system includes a real-time journey planner through the Transport Canberra website and the MyWay+ app, which is available for both Apple and Android.
I tried the app/QR code for my commute on Wednesday and it was borked both ways. In the morning the QR code is wouldn’t load at all, with the app claiming there wasn’t any internet connection. Luckily I got on a bus that didn’t even have the new readers installed.
The way home wasn’t much better with the app generating a code to tap on, but then being unable to tap off since the code was now invalid.
That being said, I saw a lot of people tap on and off with cards without issue, so it seems that part is working well - it’s unfortunate that you seem to need to use the app to get the auto top-up discount or to get a travel concession.
is there a competitor app called HighWay+?
I already posted this story 2 days ago but I don’t think it’s shown up
Your comment and post only just appeared today (3/12) for me and other people not on lemmy.world, it’s an example of an annoying federation delay between lemmy.world and aussie.zone (the instance where this community is hosted). Currently it appears to take about five days for actions to filter through from lemmy.world due to this delay, so for example if you were to reply to this comment other users viewing from lemmy.world would see your response right away but it’ll take ~5 days for me to receive it.
This has been an ongoing issue for months unfortunately, and does lead to situations like this where posts/comments are seemingly ignored by the broader community. As far as my understanding of the matter goes the problem comes down to the Lemmy software sending actions one at a time and lemmy.world being a big (and active) enough instance that the posts/comments/votes its users generate simply cannot send fast enough through to a lot of other instances. The output level is at the point where the extra milliseconds from being physically further away from lemmy.world’s hosting location makes a noticeable difference in how far behind an instance falls in receiving lemmy.world actions, and aussie.zone is hosted about as far away as one can get (hence the large delay that has built up).
One of the most recent versions of Lemmy has apparently included a way to fix the issue but lemmy.world is still running several versions behind (0.19.3 when current is 0.19.7). Sadly this delay will continue until either lemmy.world updates to a version which can send multiple actions at once or people slow down with posting/commenting/voting on lemmy.world (not an ideal solution, given I want the fediverse to continue being popular). In the mean time if you want to keep up to date with aussie.zone communities the only option I can think of is to use another Lemmy/Kbin account - an aussie.zone account is one way but using basically any instance that’s not lemmy.world should work.
@Tau did it work this morning? It definitely didn’t on Tuesday when it was supposed to launch! 🤣
I have yet to try it out myself, public transport doesn’t really work for my commute down here so I only catch it once in a blue moon. I did hear that the new system wasn’t particularly functional on launch - one does expect a few teething issues but ideally you’d get more minor ones instead of the system straight up not working for people.
