The head of government, Martí Batres Guadarrama reported that the dThe appearance of the unitary ticket with magnetic tape will not affect the workforce at the Metro ticket offices, given that in this modernization process now they will take care of sell integral mobility plastic and refills Of the same.
With the Last edition of 14 million tickets ends the historical ticket cycle with magnetic tape from 1969-2024which will be on sale and can only be used in the Metro lines 2 and 3 until the last day of February, the official reported.
“It has come to an end, the Metro ticket is over, technologically ended its useful life and now it is replaced by the Integrated Mobility Card,” emphasized Batres Guadarrama.
However, he noted that with the latest edition of 14 million tickets There will be a transition period, so users will still be able to access with the unit ticket at Metro Line 2 and 3 stations for the remainder of January and until the last day of February.
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“When the month of February ends, all entries to the Metro will be through the Integrated Mobility Card, reported the head of the capital government.
And he added that “It will be a collector’s item, whoever wants to collect it, because it will end.”
The last ticket
In this regard, the general director of the Metro Collective Transportation System, Guillermo Calderón Aguilera, reported that the latest edition of the Metro’s magnetic stripe ticket ends a 54-year cycle and, therefore, The last edition is a semblance of the first ticket that circulated in 1969.
“It has the evocation of what was the first ticket in ’69, the first ticket that was issued, the same characteristics of size and the magnetic tape, which is the reading element in the turnstiles,” said Guillermo Calderón, who reported that in Last year, more than 180 million tickets were manufactured.
Calderón also recalled that the gradual withdrawal of magnetic tickets began in September of last year, first Line 4 and Line 6 entered exclusively into the Mobility Card; It was on September 30, Line 7; on October 21, Line 5; and the Line 1 station, upon opening its first phase, exclusively card; On November 25, Line 9 and B were incorporated; and in December Line 8 and A.
Likewise, he reported that Line 12 now exclusively handles Integrated Cardso only Lines 2 and 3 remain to be incorporated.
He highlighted that in this modernization training was also given to all our fellow ticket office workers, which is why he emphasized that “the ticket office staff is not touched or modified,” it is simply modernized in terms of the use and issuance of what is the entry to the Metro lines.
“Before this ticket was sold, now they issue and sell the card, the plastic of the Integrated Mobility Card and/or recharge the amount they have at their request,” he noted.
He indicated that in the process of modernizing validator systems, 1,500 new turnstiles, 870 validators and 206 checkpoints or courtesy doors were acquired, all for the modernization of the collection system; vending machines, 72 new, plus those already previously acquired, which were 314. “So, the entire collection system is already modernized to facilitate entry, more expeditious, safer entry to our facilities,” he added.
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“There are now 10 of the 12 Metro lines that exclusively use the Mobility Card,” said Calderón Aguilera, highlighting that the benefits of this system are savings in waiting time in lines; It also prevents the eventual illegal sale of these tickets.
Note published in The Press