Members of the public will finally be able to use Transperth’s updated contactless payment system from next week, more than four years after it was first budgeted for – but there is a catch.

The Public Transport Authority is launching a four-week trial of the system from the end of September, which will allow contactless credit card payments for 50 users on the Elizabeth Quay to South Perth ferry route.

Transport Minister Rita Saffioti with new Transperth ticket machines in 2023. Credit: Hamish Hastie

After that trial, it will be opened up to 150 users of the bus and train network, while the rest of the city will have to wait until the end of the year to use the $68 million system, which has blown out from the $58 million budgeted in 2021.

Transport Minister Rita Saffioti put the c

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