Regional Transit Service says the newly-approved state budget will give it funding for a new mobile ticketing system…and five electric buses.
RTS head Bill Carpenter says they’ve been working with New York City’s MTA to identify the best electric bus technology and it’s time to try it out as part of the fleet. Carpenter says the mobile fare-purchase system builds off the “tap and go” bus cards. He says they speed up people getting on the bus.
The two projects together are worth more than $8 million .