Common ticketing system for metro and buses from Nov 24

From Nov 24 you will just need a ‘common ticket’ to travel by the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses and the Delhi Metro, state Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said here Thursday.

“The system trials will start on Nov 24,” said Lovely at the inauguration of Delhi Metro’s Noida section here.

The minister said that the ‘card’ which would be used for the common ticketing system is still being put into place.

The demand for such a ‘common ticket’ was being made for a long time as it would modernise and integrate the city’s transport system.

A few months ago, the government had announced that it would put into place the common ticketing system before the Commonwealth Games 2010.

“The system would be of great help during the Games,” said a transport department official.