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Melbourne’s high-profile fare-system overhaul is already expected to run behind schedule. Now there’s a new report of a key subcontractor pulling out of the project.

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Local report earlier said the full rollout of new validators, turnstiles and other infrastructure for the project, which would cost nearly AU$545 million (US$339.7 million) in capex, would take until mid-2027 to complete. That would represent a delay of around two years.

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• DTP (Victoria)
• Conduent
• Convergint
• Cubic
• NTT Data

A local report that hit over the weekend is pointing to more problems for Melbourne’s AU$1.7 billion (US$1.1 billion) fare-system overhaul, with a key subcontractor reported to have walked away from the project.

There has also been a separate rumor that Australia’s Victoria state government last month agreed to an

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