Barcelona Metro ticketing machines begin a process of modernization

The new machinery, available from 2027, will be more accessible for people with disabilities

Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) has started the tender process to renew the ticket vending machines on the conventional metro lines with a strong emphasis on accessibility. The project includes between 290 and 397 new devices that will replace the current ones, installed since 2004, and that will be distributed at […] The entry The new metro ticket machines will improve auditory and visual accessibility appeared first on Diari de la …

Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) has today put out to tender the renewal of the ticket vending machines of the metro network, which will start in 2027 and will last until 2028. The project, which foresees a minimum investment of 19 million euros, will include the replacement of between 290 and 397 devices spread over 126 stations. The final number of renewed machines will depend on the degree of digitization of users. These new machin…

It is one of those things that you do not realize until someone comments: the machines of sale of tickets of the metro have been dated. Not only from the technological point of view, also for its aesthetics of early century. Transportes Metrpolitanos de Barcelona (TMB), perhaps enlivened by the push of other cities that have already taken this step, has decided to renew them with the call of a public contest that has the double objective of mode…

The years have passed for ticket sales machines in the Barcelona metro and you can no longer do with them many of the things that technology allows today in other cities. Without going further, with the system deployed in 2004 you can not purchase a plastic T-Mobilitat card, you have to expect to send it by mail home. Or you can not ask for a full invoice of the purchase of tickets, which usually collapses the in-person information points every …