City buses get electronic fare boxes
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THE first of Winnipeg Transit’s long-awaited electronic fare boxes will go online this morning.
Eight of the utility’s 565 buses have been equipped with the $20,000 machines that accept coins, issue transfers and, late this year, will begin reading programmable smart cards that will replace paper passes.
All Winnipeg Transit buses will have the new fare boxes by early July, said Tony Dreolini, the utility’s plant and equipment manager. The machines issue new, smaller transfers with time stamps and QR codes. They do not accept pennies and paper money.
The smart-card readers will go online by December. Before they do, transfers and tickets will be accepted manually and riders with paper passes may continue to show them to drivers.
The entire technological upgrade, originally envisioned in 2003, cost $17.7 million.
Transit users will be able to reload the smart cards on the Internet, by phone or in person at retail stores.
Bus passengers will only have to tap the cards on the new readers, which will be programmed to only count a single fare in the event the cards are mistakenly tapped twice.
