BETHPAGE, NY – AUGUST 27: Riders get ready to board a Long Island Rail Road train prior to the planned noon shutdown on August 27, 2011 in Bethpage, New York. Irene, now a Category 1 hurricane, has made landfall in North Carolina on its way up the eastern seaboard. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
The MTA’s Long Island Rail Road is launching a new ticketing app just in time for the Barclays PGA Tournament. The event is expected to add about 35,000 more passengers over the four-day tournament. The app, developed by LI tech firm CooCoo, allows LIRR customers to buy tickets and receive bar-coded tickets via email to print out at home or they can store the images on their smart phone. Tickets will be scanned on trains with a bar-code reader. Ryan Thompson, CooCoo co-founder, said this is the first live mobile ticketing solution offered by a major U.S. transit agency.
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