On Jan 24, 9:37*pm, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:46:02 +0000, "

wrote:
How many other towns in the country use SmartCard for their transport?

The whole country uses them for concessionary travel but very few have
proper readers on buses in the respective counties.

When I was last in Glasgow, watching the old biddies boarding buses
was a painful experience. The card reader is on top of the driver's
ticket machine, so the user has to reach through the small gap in the
attack screen and balance their card on top of the machine for a
couple of seconds.
It's not exactly the picture of efficiency you see on London buses.
Another poster mentioned the Ridacard on Lothian Buses - their guide
may give you an idea to the process: http://lothianbuses.com/ridacard.php

Some parts of the New York Subway did a trial where Citibank-issued
MasterCard PayPass cards could be used to pay for journeys - I was
hoping to give it a try with my OnePulse card (which uses Visa PayWave
- which should be interoperable with PayPass) last year, but it
appeared that the PayWave functionality didn't work on any of the
readers I tried it on, both on and off the Subway.