Washington metro paperless ticket contract

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USA: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has awarded Cubic Transportation Systems an $8m contract to convert more than 500 vending machines selling magnetic stripe ‘farecard’ tickets to sell and load value onto SmarTrip contactless smart cards. This forms part of WMATA’s plan to eliminate paper ticketing by early 2016.

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