Smartcards offering cheaper travel on the Tyne and Wear Metro could be given out at stations – and mobile tickets could finally be available on iPhones this year.
Plans have been revealed to hand out Pop pay as you go cards to Metro passengers, in a bid to encourage more people back onto public transport and cut the cost of printing thousands of paper tickets every day.
The price of single and daysaver tickets on the Metro is going up by 9.5% from April, with operator Nexus facing a major financial crisis, but will be frozen for people using Pop cards.
