Doha, Qatar: Travel cards are now accepted on metrolink services.
"Your journey just got easier with metrolink!," announced Doha Metro & Lusail Tram on social media.
Travel card holders may now tap their cards, standard and gold club, on the reader upon boarding the bus to utilize its service.
However, the new option does not apply to paper tickets.
Children above the age of five are also mandated to tap in to use the metrolink services.
It further added that metrolink QR Code and Karwa Smartcards, which were initially implemented, are still valid.
The metrolink is a feeder bus network providing first and last-mile connectivity to Qatar Rail customers within a two to five-kilometre radius of the Metro stations. The service is free of charge and operates daily from Sunday to Wednesday, 5:30am to 11:59am; Thursday, 5:30am to 1am; Friday, 2pm to 1am, and on Saturday, 6am to 11:50pm
Currently, around 55 metrolink routes are in place serving different areas from the Metro station. For instance, the Lusail QNB has two metrolink routes - M145 serving Doha Festival City, and M146, serving Al Kheesa; Qatar University metro station, M147 (Lusail Marina), M148 (UDST), M149 (Wadi Al Banat); Legtaifiya, M109 (Viva Bahriya), M110 (Porto Arabia and Perlita Gardens), M152 (Abraj Quarter); DECC, M105 (Al Dafna); and West Bay Qatar Energy, M106 (Onaiza 65), to name some. The frequency of the bus route is 12 minutes, 15 minutes or 20 minutes.
For a full list of the fleet, visit qr.com.qa or download the Karwa Journay mobile application on Google Play or iOS.
