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It’s no longer certain that Calgary’s long-delayed transit smart card will come out in 2015, after the latest batch of testing revealed more system “hiccups,” a senior Calgary Transit official said.

As they relaunched testing of the Connect card, transit executives had been making positive noises about an early 2015 launch for the fare technology that was first supposed to come out in summer 2012.

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Back then, problems in the test phase were so severe that the city cancelled its provider contract, only to give Telvent a second chance a year later because alternative providers would be far more costly.

Some problems and bugs have been found in the last three months of city staff’s dry runs with Connect, transit planning manager Neil McKendrick told the Herald this week.

McKendrick wouldn’t offer a target date. Asked if Connect would come out at some point in 2015, he said: “I sure hope so.”

The city will only release Connect if it’s perfect on launch, he said.