(19 Sep 2020, 3:57 pm)Dan wrote Bit of a sweeping statement but I’m friends with a few Gateshead Central Taxis employees on Facebook and there seems to be a shortage of ticket machines since their award of a lot of contracts this year.The ticket machine shortage is sorted, as of yesterday, when 6 new machines arrived from Ticketer. They are contactless enabled, but will only be used on 335 in the short term. Not sure when the contactless payment will advertised for use.
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I'm led to believe that there was not a shortage of machines, but a shortage of working machines. Ticketer don't come out to service the machines, but they have to be sent away to Ticketer for repair.
The main reason that contactless is not available is the percentage that the banks take, and the actual small amount in takings make it financially unviable. Other hand, Nexus should stipulate that contactless payment must be available, allowing the bidders to fact this into their bids.