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This doesn't affect bus customers. Bus customers already pay a penalty for using cash and lose the ability to obtain free transfers to other buses and discounts when transferring to or from rail.

Metro has some money for replacing rail fare collection equipment, but it isn't much, about $2M per year or so, and that's to replace probably close to 600 machines. I haven't seen anything come out of Metro that shows me they're working on the new generation of AFC equipment other than mentions that a redesign would be good.

The one day pass is a terrible deal. It's almost $10. Maybe it'll be a better deal if my proposal is approved. It's also no good during the morning rush period.

I think the single fare with a prominent note to add or subtract a certain amount was already tried, when Metro posted the Smartrip fares and had a note to add 25 cents for cash. It didn't work.

I would like to point out that London also has distance-based and peak/offpeak fares and they use the system I proposed, but even worse. The one-zone ride is £4 with cash, a fairly large amount.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14416.aspx

by Michael Perkins on May 31, 2011 6:23 pm • link • report