> Plus, people paying cash slow down the bus as they fumble for their wallets and count out their coins and such. Around here, on board the busses, they have c

> Plus, people paying cash slow down the bus as they fumble for their wallets and count out their coins and such. Around here, on board the busses, they have completely automated machines that can read all the notes and dispense change automatically, they even seem pretty robust at it (crumpled bills, etc work fine) - they essentially as good a job as it's possible to do with cash. And it still takes agonizingly longer than tapping a transit card and everyone else on the bus hates you.