The Globe's transportation reporter provides a handy video on how to use the new card - and shows why he desperately needs somebody at boston.com to change that dorky photo of him on his blog.
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CharlieCards
By adamg - 12/3/06 - 11:25 pm
Jenny G reports she tried buying a CharlieCard at Davis Square with her credit card on Friday. Just wouldn't take. Finally, one of those roving T "ambassadors" told her the machines weren't accepting credit cards - so she used the last of the change in her purse to buy one. Surprise:
... Today I checked my credit card on line & see that I have been charged $10 for the Charlie card I didn't receive. I guess the system was working well enough to charge credit cards, just not well enough to provide Charlie cards for the charged amount. ...
By adamg - 11/29/06 - 2:41 pm
Jason, on the Red Line:
When I ride the T, I am reminded of why I don't mind the hassles of owning and driving a car in the city.
Single Girl in the City, on the new extra-slow CharlieReaders on the Green Line (B trolley, to be exact):
By adamg - 11/19/06 - 4:17 pm
Gary McGath notes the new CharlieCards will have RFID chips and that the T plans to retain information on where and when you get on the T for up to two years:
By adamg - 11/10/06 - 7:44 pm
John Daley notes the T's fare increase is timed to coincide with the formal launch of CharlieCards, which, of course, are named for the protagonist of a song who will never return, no, he'll never return, because he couldn't get offa that train after a fare increase:
... I suppose it makes sense since, just like Charlie, a lot of working people now won't have enough money to pay the fare.
By adamg - 10/9/06 - 8:33 am
Somebody at the company that built the software for the new Charlie machines needs some help with decimal points.
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