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As many as four times a day, riders have complained that the ticket-dispensing machines wouldn’t take dollar bills.

Melone said the problem is in the machines’ hardware and software and that streetcar manufacturer Inekon, based in the Czech Republic, is working to fix it.

The timing of the machines also was changed so it can take single bills; eventually they’ll be fixed to take two $1 bills consecutively, but in the meantime, “we’re discouraging people from feeding two consecutive bills. … We will modify that so that can be done,” Melone said.

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