Peterborough Transit riders will soon have the option to use smart-cards instead of paying with coins to get on a bus with a new $1.5-million fare collection system.

City council approved the purchase from Garival on Monday after putting aside money for the project in the 2010 budget.

The new system should be installed and operating by September, transit operations manager Gary Noakes said Tuesday.

“The older system that we have is some 20 years old,” he said. “We will be into basically state-of-the-art, we’ll be up to the current model.

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From the Peterborough Examiner- April 14, 2010