New York's Metro-North testing mobile ticketing app; will it come to subway too?
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Step in right direction, and at some point even train conductors would become redundant.
Source: Reuters
Author: Sinead Carew
Some New York commuters may soon consider paper railroad passes and lines at ticket vending machines annoyances of the past now that smartphones can be used to pay for the train to work.
Metro-North Railroad, the nation's second-largest commuter rail line, said on Wednesday that next month it is starting a mobile ticketing pilot program that allows passengers to buy and display tickets on their iPhone, Android or BlackBerry smartphones.
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