TransLink testing Compass Card technology

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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – You can now pay for things like coffee and movie tickets with your smart phone, but what about using it to ride the bus?

Derek Zabel with TransLink says things like using a smart phone app to swipe your fare, and paying for things like coffee with your Compass Card could be introduced one day, just not this fall.

“In the future we will have some convenience factors for customers, the Compass Card will have that technology. But, for the foreseeable future right now, we want to make sure people understand how this technology is going to change the way that they travel on the transit system.”

Zabel points to what cities like Tokyo and London have done with their smart card systems as a model for TransLink. “The Compass Card right now, you can look at examples of smart cards across the world. They can load up their card and use it at different vendors, for example. It has that kind of technology built into it.”

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