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The fare card system they implemented here tracks everywhere you go on their system. If you use the tickets you pay more, if you don't register your card, good
by grawprog 8y ago
The fare card system they implemented here tracks everywhere you go on their system. If you use the tickets you pay more, if you don't register your card, good luck when something goes wrong with it(and it will).
Your options are, travel anonymously, and pay more or risk losing the money on your fare card due to them just deciding not work anymore, loss etc. I've gone through 4 now in about three years. Two just stopped working and i lost two. They also don't give your $6 deposit back, so i've now spent an extra $24 i'll never get back, for nothing on top of the money i lost on the first two cards. I've registered them since.
Or
Get tracked constantly any and everywhere you go on transit.
- darren_ 8y ago> If you use the tickets you pay more, if you don't register your card, good luck when something goes wrong with it(and it will). Counterpoint: No it won't, necessarily. I've never had an issue with one of these IC cards (edit: in over 10 years of using them). I've lost one, that's it. I've lost more of the paper tickets _inside_ the station than that. Do you have actual data on the failure rates of IC cards?