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

Re: from the MBTA page

[glowroper.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Hopefully my human resources dept will be able to provide one of these.

Now to fight the RFID chips in passports....

Re: from the MBTA page

[ceo]

I expect that CharlieCards distributed through corporate pass programs will be registered, so they can refill it automagically.

Re: from the MBTA page

[glowroper.livejournal.com]

That is why they have to start now to figure out a way to accomodate the requirements of their employees.

I asked the guy handing out the things this morning, and he thought they were great questions but did not know the answer. He also agreed that it was not fair that US citizens should actally be penalized for wishing to use cash.