New ticketing tech to speed up Cork bus passenger boarding process

STOCK Generic image- A moving bus passes a Bus Eireann double-decker bus parked on South Mall, Cork.

The National Transport Authority (NTA) has begun installing devices on the Cork city bus fleet to speed up the passenger boarding process.

But it still can’t say when its proposed ‘Next Generation Ticketing’ project will be rolled out across the fleet to allow passengers use credit and debit cards or mobile devices to pay for journeys.