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10/4/2002



Rail News: Passenger Rail

Cubic concludes deliveries for Millennium Line


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TransLink recently took final delivery of an intermodal fare payment system for its SkyTrain "Millennium Line," which opened Aug. 31 in Vancouver, British Columbia.



The system, part of an $18 million contract TransLink awarded Cubic Transportation Systems Inc. in April 2001, includes advanced touchscreen ticket vending machines that issue (in six languages) a common magnetic farecard usable across the region’s rail, bus and ferry services.



The Millennium Line is an extension of TransLink’s SkyTrain light-rail system, which includes its Expo Line. In early fall, Cubic plans to begin installing additional ticketing machines equipped with Cubic’s Tri-Reader™ technology in the Expo Line’s 21 stations.



Tri-Reader, which can process information from three types of Smart Cards, would enable TransLink someday to switch from magnetic strips to Smart Cards in the future.