New retail network is just the ticket!
Nottingham City Council is set to transform the way passengers buy public transport ‘smart’ tickets. A new £1.5m retail network of ticket machines is being developed alongside an online portal to make it faster, easier and more cost effective to buy, collect and top up tickets for journeys in and around the city.
There will be 38 ticket machines installed at key sites close to bus stops in the city centre, and a further 50 at district centres and places which generate high numbers of journeys.
Here are the current locations:
- Angel Row
- Beastmarket Hill
- Bulwell Bus Station
- Carrington Street
- King Street
- Milton Street
- QMC on Derby Rd
- Queen Street
- South Sherwood Street
- Trent Street
- Upper Parliament Street
You can currently check the expiry date of any Kangaroo product you have loaded onto the card, purchase a Citycard pre-loaded with 10 days of travel or you can top up an existing Citycard with any of the following travel products:
- 1 day
- 10 day
- 1 month
- 3 month
- 6 month
- 12 month
All of these are available in Adult, Student or Child options.
The future
Once the ticket machines have been fully implemented, a new ‘e-purse’ is to be developed, available from the new retail network, which will guarantee the best fare for whatever journey is taken, with the maximum fare being the Kangaroo day ticket price.
Councillor Jane Urquhart, Nottingham City Council’s Portfolio Holder for Planning and Transport, said: “These improvements will make travelling by public transport in Nottingham even better. By making tickets available more easily online and at kiosks and outlets in and around the city, public transport becomes a more appealing way to travel for even more people.
“These proposals come as Nottingham’s tram network is changing and expanding, with the tram operator preparing to introduce new self-serve ticket machines with easy-to-use screens, located at tram stops, enabling passengers to buy tickets more quickly to board the city’s trams. Overall, these new developments will help to consolidate Nottingham’s public transport network as among the best in Europe.”