The Dan Company joins the Elite Bus Company by installing smart card readers on all bus doors, thereby permitting passengers to board buses using any door, significantly speeding up the process. It appears that decades after doing away with the ability to board buses in the rear, that method is returning, albeit electronically manned and not by a person as was the case in the past.

Elite has installed the units at rear doors some time ago and Dan has decided to launch a pilot program to assess the effectiveness of the move, which according to passengers using the Elite buses is significant.

There is no word of Egged planning to follow suit at any time in the near future.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)