[Carfreeliving] Muni tokens

[Andrew Sullivan]

Muni has never sold tokens in very many places.  It's a big pain.  Best 
place to get them is the Powell Street ticket booth by the cable car 
turnaround.

On Apr 12, 2005, at 13:40, Joel Pomerantz wrote:

> Does that mean that they are in fact selling "tokens" but they're made 
> of paper? I haven't found them available anywhere. If Muni were good 
> at using this opportunity, they'd sell as many tokens or 
> paper-equivalent as possible, promoting it like crazy and welcoming 
> the "hoarding" for the immediate income it brings in.
>
> The discount is easily balanced out by the advance purchase float and 
> the tendency for many tokens to be lost or never used. It's very 
> short-sighted to resist advance discounted fares of any kind I'd 
> think.
>
> I was always amazed that even before hoarding, they refused to promote 
> tokens, and made them available at so few places.
>
> Joel
>
> At 11:06 AM -0700 4/12/05, Mike Sallaberry wrote:
>> I believe it's because there is an impending fare hike and people are 
>> hoarding the tokens, which are now being issued in paper instead of 
>> coins, from what I've heard, and now have expiration dates.
>>
>> Muni is desperate to find money wherever they can.
>>
>>
>> suzahna poliwka <spoliwka at mac.com>
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>> 04/10/2005 08:59 PM
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>> [Carfreeliving] Muni tokens
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>> It's bad enough that we still have paper transfers and no metrocard, 
>> but now
>> they have stopped selling tokens at the sole token outlet @ powell.   
>> This
>> is awful for so many reasons.
>>
>> I can't believe how ridiculously stupid this is--I'm so livid I 
>> needed to
>> vent here. Does anyone know if there is some long-term strategy I'm 
>> missing?
>>
>> suzahna
>>
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