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Plans for single ticket travel
26/05/2004
New technology to be introduced will allow passengers to
use a single ticket for ScotRail and Glasgow Subway
services.
The Executive has awarded £122,000 to Strathclyde
Passenger Transport to allow integrated ticketing between
ScotRail and the Glasgow Subway. The new technology should
be in place by the autumn.
Benefits for travellers will include quicker and easier
passage through ticket gates and ticket offices and a
single payment for more than one journey.
In future, the technology could allow customers to buy
one ticket from any rail station in the UK, inclusive of
travel on the Glasgow Subway. This means that a journey
from London King's Cross to Hillhead in Glasgow's West End
could be on a single, integrated ticket.
Transport Minister Nicol Stephen announced said:
"This new technology will allow more people travelling
in the West of Scotland to benefit from joined up journeys
using one ticket.
"Currently around 6 per cent of SPT rail journeys
involve the Glasgow Subway, so potentially almost 2.5
million journeys could benefit each year from this
upgrade.
"Scotland needs more joined-up public transport
initiatives like this to reduce congestion on our roads,
grow our economy and make travel easier for passengers. Our
funding to SPT demonstrates our commitment to delivering
integrated ticketing for travellers and making public
transport quicker and easier to use."
SPT has been awarded £122,000 from the Integrated
Transport Fund to deliver integrated ticketing between
ScotRail and the Glasgow Subway. The funding will mainly be
invested in compute software.
When the technology has been upgraded passengers will be
able to purchase tickets at railway stations inclusive of
Glasgow Subway travel. These tickets would be recognised
and accepted by the Subway gates. Around 70 per cent of
ZoneCard ticket users buy their ticket at ScotRail stations
and they will no longer have to have their ticket validated
for the Glasgow Subway. The ZoneCard will work with both
the Queen Street ticket gates and the Glasgow Subway ticker
gates.
By the end of 2006, Scottish Executive spending on
transport will reach £1 billion per year, of which 70 per
cent will be targeted on public transport.