SMART CARD * UK - Newport Bus brings in one, for passengers
The bus travel smart card is said to be first of its kind in Wales
Newport,Gwent,UK -BBC News -17 May 2010: ... A bus firm is launching a photo ID "smart card" which it says will make frequent bus travel easier and cheaper... Newport Bus is offering the credit card-size "passport" card at weekly, monthly and annual rates... The assembly government, which is sharing its equipment with the firm, has a Wales-wide smart card scheme for 650,000 concessionary pass holders... Later this month Newport Bus is to launch a top-up payment card for less frequent bus users... The firm said the scheme makes it the first in Wales to run a commercial smart card system for bus passengers... (Image: Newport University student Gemma Aubrey, 21, show off her Passport card)Labels: smart buses cards, smart cards
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