Merseytravel condemned by local paper over smartcard “fiasco"

The Liverpool Post went after its local ITA with all guns blazing in mid-May, laying the blame for a whole series of high-profile setbacks firmly at the feet of onetime CEO Neil Scales and ex-chairman Mark Dowd.

The Liverpool Post is not exactly best friends with Merseytravel at the moment...

The Liverpool Post is not exactly best friends with Merseytravel at the moment...

ON 16 MAY, The Liverpool Post castigated Merseytravel, the Integrated Transport Authority for Merseyside, over its now aborted attempt to invest in a non-transport smartcard for the region. “When is a smart card not so smart?” the paper asked rhetorically on its front page. “When it costs the taxpayer £6.5m.”

Referring to the project as Merseytravel’s “investment fiasco”, The Post then claimed that: “Merseyside transport chiefs [have] wasted...

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