SKIERS TO USE SMART CARDS IN UTAH.(ERG Group provides card readers)(Brief article)

About forty buses serving ski resorts near Salt Lake City will accept contactless cards for fares in a pilot scheduled to begin this fall, Clair Fiet, chief technology officer for the Utah Transit Authority, tells CardLine. In the pilot, the ski resorts will issue chip-embedded season passes that consumers load and use for purchases at the resorts in addition to bus fares, according to the transit authority. Australia-based ERG Group is providing card readers for the project. Fiet says this will be …