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@ charlie

Good old bait and switch : get everybody hooked on smartrip for 3 hour transfers then turn around after smartrip has started and reduce back to 2 hours.

Don't forget the reason why parking lots are smartrip only customer were supposedly getting over on WMATA while infact it was their staff.

@ Wheatoner

I dont know if the newer cards are less substantial than older ones.

I know that the cards all of them are cheap compared to other rfid cards that I have used all over the world with transit systems, and in secure environments

If you have a credit/debitcard with a rfid chip or a HID Proximity card (many id's are made on these) and compare it to a smartchip card, the credit/debitcard is flexible and can be bent a little while the HID card is strong enough that it wont break in your wallet, pocket or if you sit on it. The smartrip card is neither.

The smartrip card looks like it is made by attaching two thinner cards together; if you look at the edges you can see a small groove going around the entire card which looks like it is where two cards have been glued together.

by kk on Jul 15, 2010 7:17 pm • link • report

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