Comments on: January Puget Passes Delayed

By: Oran

Oran — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:22:04 +0000

Everett Transit has a flier up at Everett Station.

By: Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:33:56 +0000

King County can’t seem to get anything right these days, can they?

By: Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:33:21 +0000

Orca has been a very slow moving project.

By: Mike Skehan

Mike Skehan — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:12:09 +0000

Which color would you like than in?
It would work a lot more often than you think. Just don’t swipe it.

By: Matt the Engineer

Matt the Engineer — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:50:21 +0000

(briefly considers printing and laminating a “SeattlePass” just to see if it would confuse a driver enough to let me on)

By: Mike Skehan

Mike Skehan — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:06:46 +0000

Riding transit should be no harder than getting in to see your favorite movie. Pick the theater, the movie, showing times, and select a ticket. Last time I checked, Metro had nearly 300 fare medias to choose from (Metro “The Book” sec. 6).
Everything from cash/coin, transfers, designer puget passes, jury tickets, old tokens,peak, off-peak, zone, weekend,GoPass, Flexpass, in many denominations and time frames(monthly, quarterly, yearly).
Try standing in line at your local theater waiting for the usher to figure out if your ticket is valid– or maybe he’ll just let everyone in for free — like some drivers do.
Add the complexity of multiple transit systems and a ferry system and no wonder visitors, new transit users, and many veteran riders are shy about trying to ride the bus.
The fare system is LONG OVERDUE for mass simplification.
Git er done!