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happydemon t1_iw9dbhw wrote

Reply to comment by KrzysisAverted in Just a word of advice (or a very brief rant) by 90sAltRockLover

This is a whole lot of opinion. The MTA has long since provided rationale and data supporting the claim that their antiquated fare collection system is costing a lot more than it should, and is cutting into profit. Service & maintenance on ancient ticketing machines is costly, who would have thought. Plus having to offer customer support at many stations in the event the machines fail, which they do and often.

Transitioning to a cashless and contactless fare system is plainly not "change for the sake of change" and this is just a nonsensical claim, considering better transit operators throughout the world have either already implemented it or are in the same process as the MTA.

It's fair (no pun) to raise eyebrows at the implementation cost, though. Just like everything else OMNY rollout was a huge one-off cost and massive boondoggle.

There are many articles like this one.

https://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/archives/610-mta-moves-toward-a-smart-way-to-pay-fares

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happydemon t1_iw9eeup wrote

Wow. Don't even need to though, the above response is unbelievable and cringeworthy as someone also in software engineering. Seems like a troll but it's all good and is par for the course on reddit.

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lafayette0508 t1_iwa9knj wrote

and who says farther down in this thread that he doesn't even live in NYC anymore

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KrzysisAverted t1_iw9hkfp wrote

If you can't tell clear satire apart form real technical advice then it seems like a waste of time to try to communicate with you.

Then again, if everything you read seems disagreeable to you, then you start to disagree with everything.

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ThirdShiftStocker t1_iw9syv3 wrote

Also to add on to that, the fareboxes in our buses are becoming increasingly hard to work with, they aren't counting coins correctly in cases, they tend to jam easily and sourcing parts for them is getting scarce. I've seen fareboxes get removed/repaired/replaced constantly. They are so prone to error compared to when I started a few years ago. They can't get rid of them all fast enough. I had someone nearly lose their MetroCard in the fare box on my bus earlier, but I was able to tinker with it to get it out.

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