LIRR rolling out onboard ticket machines
Photo credit: Steven Sunshine | Special Duty Conductor Jonathan Ferdinand speaks at LIRR headquarters in Jamaica about a new pilot program, which will begins August 16 and allows conductors to collect fares using a credit or debit card. (Aug. 12, 2011)
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A new wireless, handheld device will be tested on some Long Island Rail Road trains beginning Tuesday, allowing riders for the first time to buy tickets onboard with credit cards.
A few specially trained LIRR conductors will use the machines -- nicknamed TIM, for Ticket Issuance Machine -- on all trains between Ronkonkoma and Greenport in a pilot program through October. Later this month,...
