Word: charlieticket
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...MBTA Spokesman Joe Pesaturo, the CharlieCard—a new bus and subway pass that features an embedded microchip with the card’s value–will improve efficiency and revenue collection. Beginning in January when fares are set to hike, riders who continue using paper CharlieTickets or cash will pay an even higher fare than those using the new pass. About 300 MBTA Ambassadors sporting green vests passed the cards out all over the city to promote the CharlieCards and explain their use. “This is very important,” said Jamey Tesler...
Pesaturo said that automatic CharlieCard and CharlieTicket vending machines would allow MBTA employees—who currently dispense tokens from behind bulletproof glass—to leave their booths to become customer service agents and security officers...
...Randy Vanderhoof, the director of the New Jersey-based Smart Card Alliance, a not-for-profit that advocates the application of smart cards across the country, says that the technology used for the CharlieTicket system has been available for nearly 50 years...
| 1 |