Vic: Miners quits ticketing authority

AAP General News (Australia)
04-02-2008
Vic: Miners quits ticketing authority

The Victorian bureaucrat in charge of the state's problem-plagued new transport ticketing
system walked away from the job yesterday .. despite being due to give evidence today
to a parliamentary committee on the ticketing tender.

Transport Ticketing Authority's chief executive VIVIAN MINERS terminated his contract
yesterday .. without explanation.

He was to front the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee today about the tender
.. in which Mr MINERS faced conflict of interest issues for holding shares in a company
that was part of the two shortlisted consortia.

The TTA was set up in 2003 to implement a new one billion dollar smartcard system for
public transport .. but under Mr MINERS .. the system is now running at least three years
late.

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KEYWORD: SMARTCARD (MELBOURNE)

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