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[Article] Smartcards are comming!!!!

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  • 09-05-2003 8:08pm
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    Victor
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    http://home.eircom.net/content/unison/national/698521?view=Eircomnet
    Smartcards set to ease commuter delays
    From:The Irish Independent
    Friday, 9th May, 2003
    Juno McEnroe

    CREDIT card sized tickets for rail and bus travel are to be introduced across the greater Dublin area from June of next year.

    Commuters carrying the "smartcards" will help reduce boarding times by as much as two-thirds.

    The high-tech tickets are being developed by the Railway Procurement Agency and the project is modelled on systems in use in Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea. The RPA's Peter Taylor says the tickets will change public transport nationwide. "It makes moving between transport modes very easy. The cards are the same size as credit cards and have a life span of up to 10 years," he said.

    When travellers are down to their last electronic cent, the smartcards will let them make one more journey before topping up at outlets such as newsagents. Mr Taylor said some glitches in the tickets were being ironed out, such as the tickets setting off alarms in stores. They will be introduced next June on the Luas, Irish Rail, the DART and on buses.


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    Borzoi
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    Holy **** - an integrated ticketing system - in Ireland.

    Only 20 years behind the times, as ever


    Bet there's a strike because of it


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