The Anonymous Widower

My Second Paris Transport Day Ticket

This is the second ticket that I used to get a day’s travel in Paris.

My Second Paris Transport Day Ticket

The first one fell apart when it rained, so I had to exchange it for another.

Paris has a system called Navigo, which is very much the same as London’s Oyster. But Paris doesn’t seem to offer contactless payment with a bank debit or credit card and I can’t find any plans for them to do so.

Surely, every public transport system in the world should be moving towards contactless bank card ticketing.

Paper ticketing for transport is so nineteenth century.

I know I like the UK’s orange credit-sized rail tickets, but then they fit everybody’s wallet and are understandable by everyone and the newest ones are computer readable, by your standard scanner.

I suspect that Londoners planning a weekend away, will look at the ticketing in their possible destinations and might choose one where contactless bank cards  can be use as tickets.

If I was a world dictator, one of the things I’d do is make all buses, trams and trains accept contactless bank cards as tickets. It must surely create lots of jobs in tourism, as people would travel more, if they knew that when they ended up in say Tokyo, Helsinki or Belgrade, all they needed was work out the map of the trains and not bother with the ticketing.

January 13, 2015 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Contactless Ticketing, London, Paris