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Scoot: Some people advocating for the surcharge weren't necessarily pushing it as a way to phase out paper cards but as a way to charge tourists a little more, since they are only riding a little bit and are already spending a lot of money on hotels and so on, plus they don't pay taxes to the region.

By that token, you want to make farecards EASY to use, since you want tourists riding Metro, but that doesn't mean you want to make them CHEAP.

Metro seems to have a different priority, getting people off them. Certainly getting tourists on SmarTrip is even easier, because the SmarTrips don't demagnetize in your pocket like paper cards do, but we're a long way from that.

And WMATA just had to reprint all the charts anyway.

by David Alpert on Jul 2, 2012 2:25 pm • link • report

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