{"id":14172,"date":"2025-09-10T15:40:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/14172\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:40:17","slug":"nzta-admits-national-ticketing-plan-overly-ambitious-delays-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/14172\/","title":{"rendered":"NZTA admits national ticketing plan \u2018overly ambitious\u2019, delays rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">Those included changes to the programme governance, leadership, delivery and decision making, as well as ensuring realistic resourcing commitments from all NTS partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA new programme director has been appointed, the programme\u2019s governance structure is being reviewed to strengthen decision making, a restructure of the programme is under way to ensure it has the right resources to be successfully delivered, and additional resource has been committed to the NTS programme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">The review found the original timeframes for the project were overly ambitious, Pratley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cNTS is a complex programme to deliver. It is replacing four different ticketing systems that support five national and additional local concessions with one standardised national system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe challenge has been accommodating a broad range of localised requirements into one national technical solution. NZTA has used the review\u2019s insights to get agreement for a more manageable incremental release plan for the technical solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">In July, Transport Minister Chris Bishop told RNZ that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/politics\/transport-minister-simeon-brown-set-to-release-three-year-national-land-transport-programme\/QXSVUSLCHBAT7AIATIEHGJ3O3M\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/politics\/transport-minister-simeon-brown-set-to-release-three-year-national-land-transport-programme\/QXSVUSLCHBAT7AIATIEHGJ3O3M\/\">NZTA had been \u201coverly optimistic\u201d about its timeframes<\/a> when a briefing from earlier that year said the NTS project was on target to be completed on time and within budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">As part of the latest announcement, NZTA said the NTS would be rolled out to Christchurch in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">Pratley said NTS equipment would start to be installed on buses and ferries in Christchurch this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is exciting news for Christchurch and for the broader NTS programme. By mid-November, bus and ferry passengers in Christchurch will be able to make fare payments using credit or debit cards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">The revised national rollout plan for the NTS would be finalised this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u2013 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those included changes to the programme governance, leadership, delivery and decision making, as well as ensuring realistic resourcing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16489,4523,138,16492,14054,3556,111,139,6933,69,16488,16491,2170,16493,16490],"class_list":["post-14172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-admits","tag-ambitious","tag-business","tag-delays","tag-james","tag-national","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nick","tag-nz","tag-nzta","tag-overly","tag-plan","tag-rollout","tag-ticketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}