Western Railway to start ‘Go’ cards within a monthWestern Railway to start ‘Go’ cards within a month

Western Railway to start ‘Go’ cards within a month

Finally, commuters of Western Railway can also hope to use the ‘Mumbai Go’ smart card, which has already been running in the Central Railway. Within a month, the 350 machines at 28 stations of Western Railway will start validating the smart cards that can be used for all public transport modes.

As required by the Railway, Kaizen Automation, developers of the ‘Mumbai Go’ card has linked its two servers to the railways server.

According to Railway sources, the main reason for not starting the ‘Mumbai Go’ card at WR so far was that the WR administration was of the view that every system should be made accountable first to prevent any possibility of fraudulent activities.

The other reason was the poor response to the scheme at Central Railway.

At present, only 400 single journey tickets are being sold per day at CR. So WR did not show interest in the project. But as Kaizen has spent so much to install the machines, sooner or later, WR had to give the green signal.