Yesterday I made a comment to my bus driver about the fact that the cards are not being sold anywhere. He got on the radio to the office and the reply was that they can be purchased on line now and at retailers in a couple of weeks.

I have checked and the on-line site still has no purchase option - so even the bus company doesn't know what is going on.

Every bus I have been on this week has the reader enabled, but the drivers seem to be struggling with their new machines.

I suspect that the holdup is due to the number of retailers that are refusing to sell the cards.