High Street Consulting helps transit agencies across North America plan, procure, and deliver open payments (EMV), account-based ticketing, and fare system modernization, with fixed-scope services and senior, hands-on delivery.
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A fact-based readiness picture, clear PCI DSS scope, and a sequenced roadmap your leadership can act on.
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Complete, testable requirements and a defensible evaluation that stands up to audit.
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Evidence-based vendor governance and a controlled handover, with no loss of service, data, or knowledge.
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A right-sized governance rhythm and one source of truth for risks, actions, and decisions.
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Acceptance criteria agreed up front and a documented go/no-go, so launches are decided on evidence.
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Explained actuals, current forecasts, and milestone payments tied to evidence.
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A repeatable rollout per region, revenue reconcilable from day one, and an accepted handover to operations.
Dries has provided program management on a province-wide EMV contactless fare program for a Canadian transit agency, from stakeholder workshops through pilot to full deployment, as it scaled from a 40,000-rider pilot to more than 2,000,000 riders across 30 transit systems.
Google pushed out Play Services v26.35 on September 8, and buried in the changelog was a line easy to skim past: Android phones can now use NFC to read a physical transit card and add it, balance included, straight into Google Wallet. Hold the card near the phone, wait a few seconds, and from then…
Governor Hochul and the MTA announced on October 7 that the first 20 subway stations fitted with new fare gates saw fare evasion drop by an average of 35% over roughly the past year. At two stations, Hoyt-Schermerhorn in Brooklyn and Nostrand Avenue, the drop was over 70%. That’s the headline number, and it’s a…
On the night of May 18, 2026, Clipper 2.0 went dark across the Bay Area. Ticket vending machines threw a cryptic “verify failure and limit” message, fare inspection devices dropped offline, and riders couldn’t check their account balances. The outage ran close to 24 hours. When the Metropolitan Transportation Commission finally got an answer out…
