During the test period, which started May 16, testers on average purchased about a dozen tickets. Th

TriMet wants to thank the 150 plus beta testers of our TriMet Tickets mobile ticketing app, who became the first in the nation to conveniently and easily buy and use mobile tickets for rides on a multimodal transit system. The beta test ended yesterday, July 8, with 2,232 tickets purchased. luxury car rental california While breaking up is hard to do – the testers luxury car rental california are now back to physical ticket purchases – they will see the benefits from the beta test when TriMet launches the free app to all riders in August.
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Once the TriMet Tickets app becomes available in August, you ll simply download the free app to your smartphone, enter your credit or debit card information into the secure system and then buy and use the fares with just a few taps of the screen. No searching for loose change. No additional steps for purchasing tickets.
One week ago, July 1, TriMet launched luxury car rental california a new ticket printing system on all our bus lines. An onboard ticket printer located to the right of the fare box produces tickets that are easier to read and more durable compared to the old newsprint transfer slips. In the first week, we printed up about 200,000 of the tickets and the response has been great from riders and operators.
The new bus tickets and the TriMet Tickets mobile ticketing app will help us get to a state-of-the-art electronic fare system that we hope to begin implementing in 2015. The highly anticipated app will provide yet another outlet for ticket purchase in addition to traditional paper and cash fares available via retail outlets, the TriMet Ticket Office, fare boxes on buses and ticket vending machines at MAX/WES stations.
TriMet provides bus, light rail and commuter rail transit services in the Portland, Oregon, metro area. We connect people with their community, while easing traffic congestion and reducing air pollution making the Portland area a better place to live. More