MBTA: welcome to the 21st century
The MBTA sold its last brass token last week to a very surprised East Boston woman, the Globe reports. From now, plastic is the T's currency. The system has been heavily advertising its new CharlieCard, a rechargable credit card-like ticket. The big advantage of the CharlieCard is that it can be tapped on a rfid pad at the turnstiles, which should be much faster than feeding your CharlieTicket through the turnstile's reader. The monthly subway passes have been issued as CharlieTickets for a couple of months now, and that has been working fine so far. I'll be interested to see how smoothly the CharlieCard transition goes.
In other growing pains news, the MBTA debuted a new website, which was getting pretty good reviews, but then they had to take it down just a few hours later due to technical difficulties. The features, like mash-up maps of directions using transit and adding credit to your card online, sound really great – let's hope they can make it work...
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ebs | 10:44 AM |
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