03-30-2016, 03:52 PM
Cards are at least as time-consuming and complex as day-passes to purchase, probably more so in the end, which doesn't solve anything. What we want is for a casual decision to take or try transit to be achievable without going anywhere but the bus stop. Yes, buying long-term solutions (monthly passes, card systems that can be loaded and programmed to last you forever) can make sense to be done at fewer and less convenient locations. If you have to make as much effort to ride transit for a day as for a month, there's a problem.