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Originally Posted by itinerant
I am one of the 6000. I use transit about once a month or less. I pay cash from the ferry at Tsawassen to downtown by buying my 3-zone fare in coins at the terminal, and transfer at Bridgeport to Canada Line. There are a lot of people who do this.
I do not want to have yet another card in my wallet for these occasional journeys.
It is not unreasonable to expect a system that accepts cash at any of its boarding points to honor that ticket when transferring.
Translink must accommodate these customers. Its up to them to figure out how, but saying there is no solution except buying a card is not acceptable.
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I know this is very rude of me, but don't act like an idiot.
You don't have to keep a Compass card on your person 24/7 365 days a year if you only come to Vancouver once a month. Just keep it in a drawer or in a dish on a table near your door. Instead of grabbing all those coins you carry, grab your compass card. You obviously plan ahead when taking transit by making sure you have enough coins, just plan ahead and put your compass card in your pocket. Sounds easier even.
Do you carry every key you have with you every time you go out, or do you have a couple different key rings for the situation (like I don't need to carry the key to my storage locker with me when I'm going to get groceries)?
You can get on Transit with as little as 1 cent on your card, so you don't need to keep it loaded with $50 of cash or anything. Just go online before you come and load up like $10 on it (a round trip), then when you're home it is depleted and you are not losing out on opportunity value on your precious fiver. Or set it up to automatically top up with $10 when you use it. It is easier than rummaging through you couch for $11 worth of quarters for your round trip.
And take a look at your wallet. I bet you have a card in there that you use less than once a month. Take it out and replace it with the Compass card if you are worried you'll just forget it.
But you already pay with cash instead of keeping faresavers around, so why are you complaining about having to pay more? You already do. Every 4 trips you are basically throwing away the same value as 1 ticket.
Just think about what you are saying. You would rather collect change and carry around pockets full of coins, count it out and insert it into a machine, then carry around a flimsy paper ticket in your pocket that you can't fold or bend, rather than just carry around something the size of credit card, weighs next to nothing, and gets you on transit in literally a second, that costs less to use than the coins you want to use. And Translink is being stupid?
Again, I apologize for being rude. But to me this is just lazy people complaining about a cost being applied to them for being lazy so that my taxes can stay down. I understand it is an inconvenience to some people, but raising my taxes to pay for their absolute incompetence is an inconvenience to me.
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