Metro-North moves forward on digital tickets for 2014
Photo credit: Rory Glaeseman | A Metro North Ticket kiosk at the Tarrytown train station. (Dec. 27, 2012)
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Metro-North is moving ahead with a digital ticketing plan that could soon render its conductors' hole punchers a relic of train riding's past.
Instead of paper tickets, commuters would be able to flash conductors their digital tickets on smartphones so they can scan bar codes, according to a plan announced Monday at Metro-North's monthly committee meeting in Manhattan.
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