The whole charlie card / charlie ticket system was a cash grab from the beginning. Can you tell me what a round trip subway only fare is? If you're stuck without your handy charlie card, it will set you back $5.25 -- that's right, you can't get 2 round trips out of $10. Even with the charlie card, it's still $4.50 for a round trip. For the overall level of service, cleanliness, and timeliness, it sucks. They realized about 15 years ago that if they kept tokens for fares, they couldn't just keep raising fares willy-nilly. Hence the charlie card. Every time I take the T these days I feel like a first-class sucker.
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Date: 2019-01-10 10:51 pm (UTC)