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CharlieTrash
By adamg on Mon, 09/18/2006 - 12:38pm
Because the T apparently failed to consider what riders would do with used-up CharlieTickets, stations that do support them now look like your basic convenience-store after everybody's realized they didn't win the Powerball - the damn things are scattered everywhere. Mac Daniel admonishes riders to stop being such slobs, while also getting an acknowledgment from a T flack that CharlieTrashcans are still two to three weeks away.
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Crying in a Bucket
Even by T standards, this is a big "D" for "duh".
Apparently they thought riders would be so in love with the Charlie cartoon that they'd keep the dead tickets as souvenirs. There is no easy way to dispose of them.
At the Forest Hills station, for one, once you go through one of the nine gates, if you look carefully, you can find a one-gallon plastic bucket by one of the four stairways. It is overflowing all the time. So some people try.
More commonly, they drop them on the ticket reader. The T trolls when walk around like so many table busboys picking up the junk. The T has trained riders to just drop the tickets.
This is stupid even by T standards.
Put trash receptacle on or next to the gate, or right on the other side. What were they thinking, if anything. What were they drinking or smoking when they specified the equipment?
Bad T. Bad.
One bucket? Hell, that's
One bucket? Hell, that's better than Malden. The nearest trash bin is up the escalator, down the platform, and behind a pillar.
The area just beyond the UpChuck gates and the entire escalator is covered with UpChuck tickets.
How about non-disposable tickets?
Why not make the tickets durable/refillable and have a deposit on them, like laundry cards or copy machine cards do? Maybe not $2.00 like these cards tend to be, but more like 50 cents or something? Out-of-towners could sell them back to the Charlie Card machine to get the deposit back. I'd guarantee people wouldn't be tossing them around then.
http://1smootshort.blogspot.com
That's coming once all the
That's coming once all the stations and fare boxes are converted. It will be called CharlieCard. (What you're using now is CharlieTicket.)
CharlieCard
That is the idea behind the CharlieCard, which will debut at a later date. In fact according to the T, under their system commuters will be "rewarded" for using the reusable/refillable CharlieCard instead of cash.
http://www.mbta.com/projects_underway/afc/charliet...
"There is never enough time to do or say all the things that we would wish. The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have. Remember Scrooge, time is short, and suddenly, you're not here any more."
-The Ghost of Christmas Present
Sigh...
Like many things it does, the T did not consider what a nuisance the tickets would be.
Yes, even the tickets are reusable but only up to a certain point and depending on how finicky the machine is, it will either eat it or add money after you jump through the usual hoops.
They "say" that the CharlieCard will come after all of the new machines are installed but we are assuming that all of them will be done before the end of the year and that the bloody things will work...
"There is never enough time to do or say all the things that we would wish. The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have. Remember Scrooge, time is short, and suddenly, you're not here any more."
-The Ghost of Christmas Present
plastics
MetroCard. seems like a decent reusable idea (even if you do find some of them discarded in NY.....)