Plymouth Citybus launches Contactless payment

As more and more bus companies in Britain are taking on ‘Contactless’ as a way to pay bus fares, Go-Ahead owned Plymouth Citybus has launched contactless payment for their services.

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Go-Ahead owned Plymouth Citybus is the latest operator to start accepting contactless payment methods including bPay, Apple Pay, Android Pay, Visa and MasterCard.

Says MD Richard Stevens: “We find that a common reason people choose not to use the bus is that they don’t carry cash or are afraid they do not have the correct change.”

Plymouth Citybus is the only operator in Plymouth and the first in Devon to offer contactless as an on bus payment method.

It follows an extensive trial with new ticket machines, installed across the fleet in October.

Multiple tickets can be bought in one contactless transaction as long as the total amounts to £30 or less.

This means that tickets including dayrider, week and grouprider for example can all be purchased on board using contactless.

To finish this short news update - here’s a London Bus news update from LOTS:

Large numbers of new Volvo B5LH/ Gemini 3s at Arriva, Metroline and GoAhead are deiivered but still not In service. A new batch of buses now starting to arrive are the StreetLites (WS104-117) for Go Ahead route 170. Liverpool Street Bus Station closes on Sunday and from Monday 6th the 11/N11 and 133/N133 are displaced to Finsbury Circus for about a year.

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