http://tt02144.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] tt02144.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] davis_square2009-08-15 07:46 am
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T Pass Sunday Special?

The T used to offer a 2-for-1 special on Sundays.  If you had a pass you could bring a friend along 'for the ride' for free.  I can't find anything on their website.  Anyone know if they still offer this?  Thanks.

[identity profile] cn-i-crash-here.livejournal.com 2009-08-16 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I, too, miss this -- although, in the day of the official Sunday bring-a-friend benefit, I once had a shady character demand to be my friend so he could ride the bus free.

Anyway, thanks to lax monitoring of the fare gates, one can still observe patrons using this "benefit" about once a minute, every day!

[identity profile] m00n.livejournal.com 2009-08-16 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
If by "lax" you mean "virtually nonexistent..."

I have repeatedly taken advantage of this "feature" when my girlfriend and I arrive at fare gates displaying the error message "smart card only" and I can't use my (still annoyingly un-smart) commuter rail month pass to go through but she can use her Charlie Card. Just thinking about it now, it's even stupider that it says "Smart Card Only" instead of "Charlie Card Only" since of course only the nerdier bunch is going to know that Charlie Cards and Smart Cards are actually the same thing.

[identity profile] soft-shoulder.livejournal.com 2009-08-17 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not nerdy?? How many times have I walked further because I didn't think I had a smart card......

[identity profile] m00n.livejournal.com 2009-08-17 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Apparently you are not the right kind of nerd!

[identity profile] boblothrope.livejournal.com 2009-08-23 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
As far as stupid error messages, I think it's a toss-up between "See Agent" at the turnstile, and "Transaction not OK" at the bus farebox. Neither of them says what went wrong, or has correct information for what to do about it.