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Leaving smart ticketing to operators is a recipe for chaos

Roger Sexton, Nottingham NG1
09 March 2015
 

In its investigation into smartcard ticketing (‘Pteg gives thumbs-down to bus operators’ smart ticket initiative’ LTT 20 Feb), Pteg could have also considered the situation in Greater Nottingham. Here, in a city with a population of about 400,000 (about 5% the size of London), we have no less than four smartcard ticket systems.

There is the very good (but rather expensive) all operator ‘Kangaroo’. In addition, the three biggest bus operators all have their own...

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