projects.

Just reading about the magnitude of ERG's projects is enough to give one an optimistic outlook for the future of erg.

San Francisco
When fully implemented in 2010 TransLink is projected to serve 700,000 daily customers (1.2 million trips/day), or about 420 million transactions per year.

San Francisco equips 23,000 parking meters (http://www.examiner.com/a-425797~MTA__Prepaid_cards_gaining_popularity_at_The_City_s_meters.html)to accept the smart card.

The city's parks department has proposed accepting the card for payment at pools, golf courses and other recreational facilities, add to that, the future acceptance of the card for other payments, and the mind boggles.

TransLink will be expanded to the other transit agencies on the following timetable :
Now: AC Transit and Golden Gate Transit and Ferry
2007: BART, Caltrain, Muni
2008: SamTrans and Santa Clara VTA
2009 - 2010: Alameda/Oakland Ferry, American Canyon Transit, Benicia Breeze, Cloverdale Transit, County Connection, Dixon Transit, Fairfield-Suisun Transit, Healdsburg In-City Transit, Petaluma Transit, Santa Rosa CityBus, Sonoma County Transit, Tri Delta Transit, Union City Transit, Vacaville City Coach, Vallejo Transit, VINE (Napa County), WestCAT, WHEELS, Yountville Shuttle


Add to that the progress of other large erg projects.

The Sydney project is being delayed, not through the fault of erg ......more Political and Bank motivated. atm

The uptake of smartcards in Australia has been stalled by the Banks to this point, that is about to change.

ERG is slowly turning around, making it easier, to accumulate.

Smartercard.