i give a brief one:
70's: Two-Man Operation (TMO) with conductor &
punch-hole tickets
80's: Saw the conversion to One-Man Operation with
a fare console and a ticket printer. When Tibs came around in 1983,
it started with Distance-Related Fare (DRF) and Hybrid (i need to
read my 1985 guide on this). SMRT used magnetic farecards since its
opening in 1987.
90's: Buses change over to Magnetic Farecard
system (sometime in 1994?) with fare validators on-board and new
fare consoles.
14th Jan 2002: Selective preview of the ez-link
card system on buses begins on services 15, 78, 100, 105, 158, 176,
261, 302, 357, 358, 507, 913 and 960. Some 45,000 participants of
the previous bus and rail Super Rider Smart Card pilot tests have
been invited to preview the new ez-link Card before its official
launch. The selected participants will be able to buy and use the
ez-link Card on the MRT/LRT system and selected bus services.
23rd Mar 2002: The public launch of a smart card
for buses and the MRT, originally set for this week, has been put
off after a computer bug forced the shutdown of a trial run on the
system
24th Mar 2002: Commuters can start using the new
ez-link smart cards for MRT and bus rides (if they have the LTA
pilot contactless smart card)
13th Apr 2002: ez-link cards started going on
sale. parallel systems are used
1st Jul 2002: Senior citizens can purchase an
Interim Senior Citizen ez-link card for use on buses and train from
Monday 1 Jul 2002, when fares go up
1st Oct 2002: Students and national servicemen can
go to any TransitLink ticket office and pay to get their ez-link
cards encoded with BCP, TCP or HCP
14th Oct 2002: SMRT started dispensing single-trip
contactless smart cards
16th Nov 2002: Magnetic farecards will no longer
be sold or revalued.
1st Dec 2002: Magnetic Farecard system is phased
out on Sunday,
