Good morning friends. AJL will start issuing free BRTS tickets. 18,000 tickets were issued from eight bus stops on the opening day . I’m sure many will avail on that.
The Ahmedabad Janamarg Limited on Wednesday started issuing free tickets from eight BRTS stops to check the pros and cons of its ticketing system. On the opening day, 18,000 tickets were issued. Within a week, free tickets will be issued from the rest of the 12 BRTS bus stops, where the process of installing the ticketing system is in progress.
The civic body has made free tickets mandatory for BRTS rides to help conductors and passengers adapt to the ticketing system. It will take around two-three seconds to issue a ticket. An AJL official said: “We have started issuing free tickets to test the software of the ticketing system and its performance.
Moreover, we will be able to ascertain how much time passengers will need to buy tickets and board a bus. It will give us a real time experience.” He added, “Another reason behind starting the zero-ticketing system is to train our employees.
As the conductors and the system are new, we need to learn trouble-shooting in advance.”The civic body has purchased 50,000 paper rolls for regular tickets and 75,000 cards for issuing pre-paid cards. The tickets will be issued free of cost till the formal inauguration of BRTS. - AhmedabadMirror
