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DATE | 2003-04-07 |
FROM | Ruben I Safir
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SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Metro Card Programming
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Yeah - And, but usually they did and they ***wanted*** to every time. The cost of changing the token was ***always*** a consideration of the fare raise.
Again, this was selling point 1.0 of the origianl design.
Ruben
On 2003.04.07 15:52 Joe Villari wrote: > > > >>>they make it too easy to raise prices, > >> > >>uhh, how so more than anything else??? > > > > > > > > Because changing the price only takes a little data entry, and not the recall > > of 2.3 million tokens. This was a SELLING point of the new system. > > > This not entirely true, the MTA did not always change the tokens when it > had fare increases. > > Joe > -- __________________________ Brooklyn Linux Solutions __________________________ DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS http://fairuse.nylxs.com
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