[PRCo] Re: Railway Patronage

[John Swindler]

It was a comment about the 'Charlie card' at a fare identification meeting 
last week.  I don't know the details on how it would work.  As for 
Washington, metrorail now requires the purchase of a 'smart card' to exit 
the parking lot.  That's a $5 charge on top of the $3 weekday parking rate.  
For the locals, no big deal.  But it's a way to make extra money off of 
visitors for one-time purchase.   There is no cash fare option.  By the way, 
parking is still free on weekends on metrorail.

John


>From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Railway Patronage
>Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 22:55:25 -0400 (EDT)
>
>On Mon, 1 May 2006, John Swindler wrote:
>
> > are charged $8.  I also heard last week that Boston is in process of
> > distroying occasional ridership with the "Charlie" card, but I haven't
> > checked the process)
>
>How so? It worked fine when I was there except that you can only use it to
>enter at like 5 total stations. Logan is one of them.
>
>Derrick
>