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

[antimony.livejournal.com]

Also, express buses will no longer be covered by the combo/combo+ replacement -- they'll need an inner or outer express bus pass. They were (inner = combo, outer = combo+, IIRC) covered before. I take an inner express, but I have a zone 4 commuter rail pass, so I'm not getting a CharlieCard until they convert the rail.