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Pittsburg Port Authority testing smart cards

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Pittsburgh’s Port Authority is testing smart cards on one bus line this summer hoping to work out any glitches before deploying the new fare boxes system wide, according to a report in the Pittsburg Tribune-Review.

Ten Port Authority buses received fare collection boxes capable of using the smart-card technology and a dozen employees traveling from home in the North Hills were selected to participate in a test of the cards.

Scheidt & Bachmann USA Inc. provided the fare boxes. The authority wants to finish the pilot program before commenting on how the cards and fare boxes perform.

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