Happy first birthday TRANSLink
26 July 2005

TransLink is celebrating a major milestone - its first birthday. TransLink provides one single public transport network covering South East Queensland from Gympie North / Noosa to Coolangatta and west to Helidon.
TransLink's first 12 months has seen a 9.5% increase in public transport patronage. South East Queenslanders have embraced integrated ticketing, with an extra 11.8 million passengers since the introduction of TransLink. During the past 12 months, more than 200 different ticket types were consolidated into five core products and several operator-specific products, the TransInfo call centre answered more than 1.7 million queries and the TransLink website received more than 1.7 million hits. Next year will see the delivery of the $136 million smartcard system.

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