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Post #AxMl60Uk7IIS3tUTA0 by [email protected] |
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A few weeks back, Monterey-Salinas Transit posted an RFI (Request For Informati… |
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One of the transformational goals associated with this RFI is to remove direct-… |
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Post #AxMmsomgXqgNsyinvE by [email protected] |
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In the U.S. at least, this is not a little deal.A deep (very deep) perception i… |
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What Title IV actually states is that Agencies receiving Federal funds.What Tit… |
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I'm personally a big supporter and believer in this. Indeed, I would go one… |
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As servents of the Public Trust, we should be striving to meet this need not on… |
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Doing what is right...That is often a very loaded question... |
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Post #AxMyN6OAkrMWfWtnw8 by [email protected] |
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Accepting cash on our vehicles is an outstanding example of how loaded that que… |
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For certain facets of our economy, cash is pretty much gone.No one is accepting… |
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Post #AxMyN6cLu8hlNVX82S by [email protected] |
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Private "public" transportation (think Uber, Lyft) in the U.S. is now… |
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Post #AxMyN6jRTmNNjUqn5c by [email protected] |
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Even true Public Transportation has largely stopped collection cash in the part… |
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Post #AxMyN6pp63Tq3Hpt2G by [email protected] |
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This brings us to the world of buses in Public Transportation.Even in this spac… |
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Post #AxMyuMoMiXWD9t0q2a by [email protected] |
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And therein lies the challenge...As cash collections move towards a less-than-1… |
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Repairs (which are fairly frequent) often take one of our buses out-of-service … |
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Frustration by the public when using these systems can get high.That frustratio… |
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Our Tap2Pay system trial and deployment over the last several years has been an… |
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Post #AxN0Y7uXdU9kU1QM4m by [email protected] |
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There are other less-visible ancillary benefits as well:My cybersecurity postur… |
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But yes... For a small portion of our ridership, it will increase friction in t… |
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@NoRomBasic Think per-transaction costs of pennies instead of dollars...Your ca… |
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Post #AxN6cwEr3nhFSGbSCG by [email protected] |
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@datum Calculated as a TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). Yes.Without getting too w… |
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Post #AxN6cwUo6USOFk4C3s by [email protected] |
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@datum There are some other expenses as well.Many small U.S. agencies with low … |
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@datum Other things come into play of course (few good answers in life are easy… |
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Post #AxN7W4z8F7d6VaXfrk by [email protected] |
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But... As the % of "cash" riders approaches just a few out of every h… |
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So, how do you change the paradigm to a model that serves the vast majority wel… |
