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>tap in/tap off sucks no matter how good the system is. It is fundamentally a wrong think. Tap system doesn't have to end billing period on tap out, if that's
by ValdikSS 20d ago
>tap in/tap off sucks no matter how good the system is. It is fundamentally a wrong think.
Tap system doesn't have to end billing period on tap out, if that's what you're trying to say.
Moscow/Saint Petersburg cards have many options which you can combine (add-on packages), as well as a regular balance (wallet).
"90 minutes unlimited" does how it is named, and if you travel first by metro, then switch to a bus, you pay less in the bus.
- Gud 19d agoAs long as there is a barrier, and as long as I have to actively be doing something while moving around, it's a poor system. I enable my travel when I leave home ideally, and and stop it when I have reached my destination. Not at a location most convenient for the train operator.
- ValdikSS 19d agoI don't know how it works in your country, but in RU you only tap to get in, not to get out. There are no barriers to get out. 1. The card stores not only your ticket/cash data, but also your trips 2. You live far from the metro, so you ride by bus to the metro station. The metro station knows that you've just been on the bus (the bus activated 90 minutes window) and either don't account you or gives you a discount 3. You can also top-up the card using your smartphone with NFC. The smartphone writes data to the card (and can read your balance and a trip of course). But also, if your smartphone don't have NFC or you don't want to install the app, you can top-up using the web and write it to the card anywhere (inside the bus / on a metro station) with the regular validator (it not only reads, but writes the data received from the net as well)