Washington,
DC, July 29, 2014 – The Washington Metro is officially moving away from
paper fare cards and fully into electronic fare payment systems. An $8 million
deal with Cubic to convert, upgrade and retrofit WMATA’s fare devices to work
with contactless fare card usage called SmarTrip®
within 2 years.
The work includes changing 500 turnstiles and vending
machines
Cubic Transportation Systems initially installed WMATA’s
paper magnetic farecard system when the system opened during the nation’s
bicentennial in 1976.
This is the latest in a series of improvements on the
Washington Metro which includes the opening of the Dulles Airport Silver Line
earlier this week.
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