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wwb_99 t1_jeareo2 wrote

Reply to comment by new_account_5009 in If You Could Fix One Tiny Thing about Metro. . . [Serious] by Cooking_with_MREs

> They were originally installed at a time when cash was more common (and Metro still used paper farecards), so they made sense back then.

They were installed at a point where you processed credit cards with a carbon paper swipe in general and the concept of electronically debited accounts was newfangled and required massive amounts of custom software.

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