This will cancel the urban bus ticket in Bucaramanga

Sunday 04th May 2025 11:09 AM

This is a revolution in the payment of the Urban Bus Passage, in which Bucaramanga climbs to the digital bus.

Forget about the single: the Metropolitan Area of Bucaramanga, AMB, contemplates the possibility of releasing a modern bus service payment system. (Photo: Marco Valencia / Vanguardia)

If everything is going as the Metropolitan Area of Bucaramanga, amb, very soon paying the bus ticket will be much more practical and less cumbersome.

Just as I read it! That scene so of walking with loose coins or wrinkled tickets to pay the urban transport service could be in the past.

From the Coins to QR: Thus I would change its way of paying the urban bus. (Photo: Marco Valencia / Vanguardia)

That almost ritual gesture of looking simple or juggling with the return will no longer be necessary. What comes is a technological transformation that seeks to facilitate life to the passenger on foot, in Bucaramanga and in the neighboring municipalities of the metropolitan area.

John Manuel Delgado Nivia, director of the Metropolitan Area of Bucaramanga.

This was announced by John Manuel Delgado Nivia, director of the AMB, who explained that a modern and flexible payment system will be implemented that will allow different methods to be used: from QR codes to the same debit and credit cards.

The implementation of a centralized collection system is also contemplated, designed for conventional buses to adapt to the new times without losing sight of the inclusion and ease of use. Obviously, all this is in the process of adaptation!

One of the great novelties is that each user can have a personalized account in the system, which will facilitate the implementation of fairer tariff schemes.

Urban bus ticket in Bucaramanga will modernize.

For example, differential rates for older adults, university students or people in disabilities may be offered.

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“We want the user to have more comfort and that the payment process is simple, fast and without friction,” said Delgado Nivia.

He confirmed that this innovation will first reach the 129 buses that currently operate in the complementary system of mass transport. To them will be added the new standards that will begin to circulate in the coming months.

The change will be gradual, like any important shock, and will be accompanied by key decisions about which entities will be responsible for operating the collection system. Meanwhile, the technicians adjust details so that, when the time comes, the jump to the new model feels soft for the passenger, but strong in its benefits.