Editing Calgary Transit (section)

== Connect Card ==
The "Connect Card" is the name of Calgary Transit's proposed electronic fare smart-card. After two years of work and after installing smart-card readers on every bus and at all CTrain stations that were supposed to start working in the summer of 2012, Calgary Transit cancelled the deal with its contractor, Spain-headquartered [[Telvent]]. The City of Calgary announced on November 8, 2012, that crews will remove the new smart-card machines out of all Calgary Transit 1,000 city buses and 160 LRT pay machines after repeated glitches and delays.<ref>https://calgaryherald.com/news/calgary/City+kills+transit+smart+card+contract+after+chronic+delays+glitches/7518617/story.html#ixzz2BlEYU3Hz{{dead link|date=July 2015}}</ref>
About one year later, the City then announced that they would relaunch the initiative, again with [[Telvent]] as the provider. In June 2015, the City of Calgary decided to scrap the Connect Card project and attempt to recover costs from Schneider Electric (formerly Telvent).<ref>{{cite news|last1=Stark|first1=Erika|last2=Sylvester|first2=Erin|title=Updated: Calgary Transit cancels Connect card, vows legal action to recover money|url=https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/calgary-transit-cancels-connect-card-vows-legal-action-to-recover-money|access-date=1 July 2015|work=Calgary Herald|date=June 30, 2015}}</ref>

Following the failure to implement CC, Calgary Transit reported in November 2016 that they were in contact with their counterparts in Vancouver, Edmonton, Salt Lake City and Philadelphia to study how the cities implemented their transit smart card systems.<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 November 2016 |title=Calgary Transit still trying to find suitable electronic fare solution |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-transit-fare-card-1.3863283 |website=CBC News}}</ref>