The Greater Dayton RTA, which this month stopped accepting paper passes and tickets, will hit its Nov. 1 deadline to go completely cashless on board its vehicles, an agency representative confirmed to Mobility Payments.
If it meets the goal, as expected, RTA will be among the few transit agencies in the U.S. to rid its buses of cash payments. Even large agencies, such as New York’s MTA, Metro in Los Angeles and WMATA serving Washington, D.C., still accept cash on board buses, albeit requiring exact change of customers when they board. A number of large agencies elsewhere, however, such as those serving London and Sydney, no longer accept cash on buses–London ending the practice in 2014.
Brandon Policicchio, Dayton RTA’s chief customer and business development officer, said he doesn’t know of other U.S. agencies, that have eradicated cash from their buses, including small to mid-tier agencies, like his.
