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How the new fare system helps the T lose money
By adamg on Mon, 08/28/2006 - 11:52am
BadTransit posts a report from the Watertown yard this morning in which supervisors were forced to just wave large numbers of people onto buses because the CharlieCard system was taking so long a bus backlog was starting.
Somebody else who was at the Watertown yard this morning, however, thinks commuters will eventualy get the hang of the thing.
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B.S.
As far as the buses are concerned, the "read and spit-out mechanism" of the new Charlie card devices takes at least 3 to 4 times as long as simply swiping your card through the old readers, which worked as quickly as one could walk by.
Also...
The change slot now only accepts a single coin at a time, rather than the "dump and sort" tray that the old ones had. This certainly won't help to speed things either. Though, I'd be willing to bet the MBTA views this as a disincentive, thus driving more card sales.