[Carfreeliving] Muni tokens

[David Baker]

For whatever reasons MUNI, and for that matter BART, make it really hard
to purchase their products.  Try buying a kids ticket for BART,
available only at your local pawnshop, and forget about paying with a
credit card.

It's part of the secret society of public transit users, and restricting
access to this cabal...

db

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Pomerantz [mailto:doajig at earthlink.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 1:40 PM
> To: Mike Sallaberry; Carfreeliving at livablecity.org
> Subject: Re: [Carfreeliving] Muni tokens
> 
> 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
>