Mastodawn

The Picard Maneuver Jul 18, 2025

Learning on the job

MintyFresh Jul 18, 2025

Oh man! I’m a city bus driver, and the amount of people that struggle with getting fare in the box is too damn high! I don’t understand how you could make a bus full of people wait for you to dig through your pockets at a pace that would make glaciers impatient. You’re standing at the bus stop, you know you’re getting on the bus, know you’ll need fare, yet here we are.

I want to get a documentary crew to follow some of these people around for a while just to see what they do with their days. I genuinely wonder how some people function.

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lime!Jul 18, 2025

here buses haven’t taken cash for like 15 years. card or pre-bought tickets only.

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MintyFresh Jul 18, 2025

Must be nice. We’ve got cards, but a sizable population still uses cash

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sugar_in_your_tea

I was stoked when they introduced fare cards in my area because:

discount on fare
easier than cash
they supported credit card tap at the same time
easy to reload and freeze online

I bought three, one for me, my SO, and my oldest kid (wasn’t free anymore), and if I misplaced one, I’d just freeze it and move the balance to a different one until it turned up. I’d lend one to family so they could take transit to the airport after visiting us and then return it when they came back (I’d be fine if they lost it).

Fare cards rock, I honestly don’t understand why they weren’t very popular.

They since removed the discount, so the value of the pass is a bit less, but we still use it occasionally since it’s less bad to lose the card than a credit card.