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app_priori t1_j34d08l wrote

Metro used to use tokens?

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victoriapedia t1_j34k0t7 wrote

Metro actually used fare cards from day 1 and it was revolutionary tech for the time (although BART introduced them just 5 years earlier, but let's ignore that). Tokens were used for busses and, fucking amazingly, are still legal tender for WMATA (page 23)

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wtf-m8 t1_j3af6cn wrote

can you still get them new somewhere?

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