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Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman and CEO Thomas Prendergast told local movers and shakers in Rye Brook last week that $2.3 billion in initiatives, such as electronic ticketing, safety systems, new passenger cars and access to Penn Station from the New Haven Line, will help do that, lohud.com reported.
The MTA's $30 billion capital plan, which took more than a year to approve, also will pay for improving communications about system problems and for renovations at several train stations, Prendergast said at a meeting of the Business Council of Westchester Friday, the lohud.com story said.
MTA Metro-North announced last week it planned to start testing a free smartphone app that will let commuters buy their tickets on their iPhones, Androids or Blackberrys using their debit or credit cards.
The time-stamped electronic ticket shows up on the phone’s screen as a secure image and a bar code that a conductor can scan with a hand-held device.
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