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Subject: MARTA is presently negotiating a contract for a system which willuse smart cards only.

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Date: 2003-05-29 Can anyone tell me what cities use smart cards for their transit systemor in the process of installing them?

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Date Posted: Thursday, June 12, 01:43:02am

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From: Krishna Patnam (patnam@uiuc.edu)
Subject: Re: Smart cards

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Newsgroups: misc.transport.urban-transit
Date: 2003-05-29 11:23:12 PST

Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit system ( http://www.smrtcorp.com/ )
uses a smart card, which can be used in the city busses also.

Krishna

"Chip" wrote in message news:3ed43695@shknews01...
> In Hong Kong, the smart cards (which is called "Octopus card" locally) can
> be applied on different modes of public transport, e. g. trains, and ferry.
> In some car parks, you can also use the crads to pay the parking fee. You
> can even to the cards to buy things in convenience store or super markets.
>
> Chip
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From: Robert Bellamy (doomsday@comspiracy.com)
Subject: Re: Smart cards

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Newsgroups: misc.transport.urban-transit
Date: 2003-06-10 12:53:51 PST

David Fisher wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what cities use smart cards for their transit system
> or in the process of installing them?
>
> Thanks

MARTA is presently negotiating a contract for a system which will
use smart cards only.

-BB
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Re: MARTA is presently negotiating a contract for a system which willuse smart cards only.	Note--psssst	Thursday, June 12, 03:15:10am