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The slickest process I've seen is to just swipe your credit card, without any setup whatsoever.

by jerlam 2y ago

jmm5 2y ago
tap
SoftTalker 2y ago
Often the most expensive though. You're paying the highest individual fare rate, possibly plus card processing fees. If you buy a transit pass or use their app you can get significant discounts.
- grkvlt 2y ago
  in big cities in the uk (edinburgh, london, etc.) paying with a contactless tap of a debit card each journey will never result in paying more than the cheapest daily, weekly etc. travel pass. single tickets are gbp 2.00 and a daaily pass is gbp 5.00 so individual journeys are recorded and counted (when paid for with the same card, obviously) and at the end of the day, if more than three journeys have been made the total charge for the day is capped at gbp 5.00 - and the weekly total is also capped at the value of a weekly pass, etc.
  - iggldiggl 2y ago
    > daily, weekly etc. travel pass At least in London it stops there, i.e. the automatic capping doesn't do longer than weekly capping. Also the weekly capping only runs on a fixed Monday to Sunday period, whereas an individually bought weekly travelcard can start on any day of the week.
- MrJohz 2y ago
  A lot of systems that work this way also cap your fare so that you never pay more than the day rate. Say the day cap is £5, and an individual fare costs £2, then if you take two journeys you'll pay £2 each, but from the fifth journey on, you're capped and only pay £1. In some places, there's day and week caps, so if you travel every day of the week, the price will be capped again once you've travelled enough that week. The Oyster system in London is a classic example of this - originally you needed to load money onto a separate card, now you can do it with your bank card instead, but it still all works the same. I believe it's also the cheapest option - the daily and weekly caps are cheaper than their paper ticket equivalents. You can probably get better deals in specific cases, but generally the Oyster system is the way to go. I know they're slowly bringing that concept in in other cities in the UK as well, and there are schemes around Europe that use an app with GPS as the "tap on, tap off" mechanism.
YZF 2y ago
In Vancouver you can tap your credit card but also tap a fare card that gives you a discount. I'd have thought buying a ticket on a bus would be a thing of the past- wondering where the parent is from.

The slickest process I've seen is to just swipe your credit card, without any setup whatsoever.

by jerlam 2y ago

The slickest process I've seen is to just swipe your credit card, without any setup whatsoever.

jmm5 2y ago

tap

SoftTalker 2y ago

Often the most expensive though. You're paying the highest individual fare rate, possibly plus card processing fees. If you buy a transit pass or use their app you can get significant discounts.

grkvlt 2y ago
in big cities in the uk (edinburgh, london, etc.) paying with a contactless tap of a debit card each journey will never result in paying more than the cheapest daily, weekly etc. travel pass. single tickets are gbp 2.00 and a daaily pass is gbp 5.00 so individual journeys are recorded and counted (when paid for with the same card, obviously) and at the end of the day, if more than three journeys have been made the total charge for the day is capped at gbp 5.00 - and the weekly total is also capped at the value of a weekly pass, etc.
- iggldiggl 2y ago
  > daily, weekly etc. travel pass At least in London it stops there, i.e. the automatic capping doesn't do longer than weekly capping. Also the weekly capping only runs on a fixed Monday to Sunday period, whereas an individually bought weekly travelcard can start on any day of the week.
MrJohz 2y ago
A lot of systems that work this way also cap your fare so that you never pay more than the day rate. Say the day cap is £5, and an individual fare costs £2, then if you take two journeys you'll pay £2 each, but from the fifth journey on, you're capped and only pay £1. In some places, there's day and week caps, so if you travel every day of the week, the price will be capped again once you've travelled enough that week. The Oyster system in London is a classic example of this - originally you needed to load money onto a separate card, now you can do it with your bank card instead, but it still all works the same. I believe it's also the cheapest option - the daily and weekly caps are cheaper than their paper ticket equivalents. You can probably get better deals in specific cases, but generally the Oyster system is the way to go. I know they're slowly bringing that concept in in other cities in the UK as well, and there are schemes around Europe that use an app with GPS as the "tap on, tap off" mechanism.

YZF 2y ago

In Vancouver you can tap your credit card but also tap a fare card that gives you a discount. I'd have thought buying a ticket on a bus would be a thing of the past- wondering where the parent is from.