Posts tagged Smartrip
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Farewell to the old SmarTrip cards
As of Tuesday, March 1, pre-2012 SmarTrip cards will no longer be accepted at WMATA faregates and fareboxes. Keep reading…
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$100 transit subsidy proposal to be focus of DC Council hearing Wednesday
The Metro for DC Amendment Act would allow DC residents to get up to $100 per month in transit subsidies. Keep reading…
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Capital Bikeshare and Metro extend free rides for mobile SmarTrip card offer through June
WMATA and Capital Bikeshare are offering 10 free rides to people who sign up to pay to ride Metro on their smartphones. Keep reading…
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Photoshop creativity, SmarTrip card edition
With social distancing stretching into its second month, more people are asserting their creativity via Photoshop. In March one person gave George Washington a mask, and now graphic designer Riley Heldenfels has designed a new Metro SmarTrip card. Keep reading…
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WMATA wants your opinion on its next budget (and you should give it to them)
It’s been in the news, at the WMATA Board, and here on Greater Greater Washington. Now, WMATA has officially opened up public comments for its next budget, which includes more late-night service, free transfers between bus and rail, fare increases, some bus service increases, and a larger number of bus cuts. Keep reading…
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If WMATA makes buses more expensive for cash users, low-income riders could lose
In an effort to speed up bus trips, WMATA has proposed a $0.25 fee for actions which slow down boarding, including paying with cash and reloading SmarTrip cards onboard. While speeding up bus service would be a boon for all riders, this proposal shifts the responsibility for dealing with a systemic issue onto individual clients—the poorest ones. Keep reading…
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SmarTrip was revolutionary, but it’s 20 years old. What’s next?
It was less than 20 years ago — 1999 to be exact — when Metro released SmarTrip, the first contactless payment card in American public transportation. A few years later, Baltimore’s CharmCard was designed to integrate with SmarTrip. At the time our region was a national model for mobility payment technology, but it’s hard to imagine anyone making such a claim today. Keep reading…
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What if our region had a seamless platform for buses, bikeshare, ride-hail, and more?
If you’re like me, you use a SmarTrip card, a Capital Bikeshare dongle, and half a dozen apps on your smartphone to access ridehail, bikeshare, or carshare — and none of them communicate with each other. That leads to time wasted toggling back and forth, especially if a trip requires more than one service. What if you could manage all of these in one place? Keep reading…
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Metro Reasons: Metro hopes to bring mobile and phone payments by 2019
Metro will soon allow riders to pay for their rail and bus trips by phone, the agency announced on Tuesday, April 10. As part of an effort to become “mobile ready,” Metro is planning to roll out a mobile app later this year and wants to install new fare gates throughout the system by 2020. Keep reading…
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Look at these 9 cool transit smart cards from around the US
Did you know Boston's “Charlie Card” is named after a fictional character? A folk song recounts the plight of a man (Charlie) trapped forever on the Boston subway system because he cannot pay the five cents required to exit. Keep reading…