CharlieCard distribution

[xxv.livejournal.com]

Has anyone gotten a CharlieCard yet? I hear they were supposed to be handing them out to commuters today, but I didn't see anyone at Davis.

MBTA jargon note: CharlieCards are the RFID cards that you wave over the dark grey rectangles on the new turnstiles. CharlieTickets are the paper cards that jam the turnstiles. CharliePasses are the thin plastic cards (cleverly mislabeled "CharlieTicket") that they're deprecating.

Update: I think I made up the name "CharliePass", although I swear I saw it somewhere in the MBTA literature.
Update #2: Davis gets them starting tomorrow. Other stations get them at other times.

Comments

[ron_newman]

I think they want to avoid a situation where someone buys a monthly pass on a CharlieCard, then shows up a few days later at (un-converted) Government Center station and can't use the pass. People don't always know what stations they might use later in the month.

Supposedly the Green Line trains will all be finished by next Monday.

This Wikipedia page is a collective effort to monitor the latest status of Charlie conversion systemwide.