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Friday: weirdly busy day
Nov. 1st, 2024 11:53 pmI got my hair done.
I had a delightful phone call with K.
I walked with M.
I received some carpet samples, but I don’t think we’re going to go with that maker. Oh well! Looking at an alternative approach.
Lane Bryant order arrived and is awesome. Miss Vicky’s chips arrived. Color Kindle arrived!!!! Sooooo delighful.
FF was fun.
Last month, in NYC, I discovered the wonder that is tap to ride. More recently, I learned that it was rolled out in Boston for the subway back in August. I got curious today: is this happening more generally? The answer is: it’s really starting to be a thing. Terms you might find it under: Tap to Ride, Open Payments, Open Loop.
https://www.calitp.org/
They have a nice phrase: “making paying for a transit ride just as easy as buying a cup of coffee”
It’s funny, apps, cards in phone wallets have all been around for a while. But this is like one-click. It doesn’t _seem_ like it would make a difference, and if you live in the city in question, maybe it doesn’t. But if you are visiting, it is the difference between uber/lyft/taxi/rental car and using public transit. If you want people to use public transit, this is sooooo amazing.
ETA:
https://wjla.com/news/local/metro-tap-to-ride-open-payment-system-credit-card-smartrip-dmv-transportation-dc-maryland-virginia-public-transit-wmata#
DC metro might get this next year.
Seattle does NOT have this yet.
SEPTA: https://wwww.septa.org/news/contactless/
A bunch of things there that raised questions about how OMNY worked. I paid for multiple people on some trips using my phone.
https://new.mta.info/fares/omny
Looks like passbacks work just not on your first ever ride. I didn’t attempt a passback the first time I used it. I had not realized it capped fares over a 7 day period? Cool!
https://support.apple.com/en-us/118625
(And also: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105123, about “Express Mode”)
List of card-ful and card-less tap to pay / apple wallet pay public transit systems.
But it is not complete, because it does not mention the Dutch system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVpay
Paris has Bonjour RATP (official Paris area transportation app with Navigo card and you can do it all within the app and apple wallet apparently, so not quite what I want, but certainly no worse than Orca and similar).
Ooooh, Brussels has SEPTA level tap to ride (no passbacks)! Like NYC, capped, and even lower than NYC.
https://www.stib-mivb.be/article.html
Geneva / Switzerland: they have some weird tourist thing where your hotel emails you a QR code and you use that for public transport for length of stay. Alternatively, SBB app and turn on EasyRide, altho wow do I find that confusing.
https://www.sbb.ch/en/travel-information/apps/sbb-mobile/easyride.html
Vancouver BC: https://www.translink.ca/transit-fares/pricing-and-fare-zones
No passbacks, but otherwise pretty familiar; they solve the kid payment problem by not charging for kids. Seems reasonable.
I had a delightful phone call with K.
I walked with M.
I received some carpet samples, but I don’t think we’re going to go with that maker. Oh well! Looking at an alternative approach.
Lane Bryant order arrived and is awesome. Miss Vicky’s chips arrived. Color Kindle arrived!!!! Sooooo delighful.
FF was fun.
Last month, in NYC, I discovered the wonder that is tap to ride. More recently, I learned that it was rolled out in Boston for the subway back in August. I got curious today: is this happening more generally? The answer is: it’s really starting to be a thing. Terms you might find it under: Tap to Ride, Open Payments, Open Loop.
https://www.calitp.org/
They have a nice phrase: “making paying for a transit ride just as easy as buying a cup of coffee”
It’s funny, apps, cards in phone wallets have all been around for a while. But this is like one-click. It doesn’t _seem_ like it would make a difference, and if you live in the city in question, maybe it doesn’t. But if you are visiting, it is the difference between uber/lyft/taxi/rental car and using public transit. If you want people to use public transit, this is sooooo amazing.
ETA:
https://wjla.com/news/local/metro-tap-to-ride-open-payment-system-credit-card-smartrip-dmv-transportation-dc-maryland-virginia-public-transit-wmata#
DC metro might get this next year.
Seattle does NOT have this yet.
SEPTA: https://wwww.septa.org/news/contactless/
A bunch of things there that raised questions about how OMNY worked. I paid for multiple people on some trips using my phone.
https://new.mta.info/fares/omny
Looks like passbacks work just not on your first ever ride. I didn’t attempt a passback the first time I used it. I had not realized it capped fares over a 7 day period? Cool!
https://support.apple.com/en-us/118625
(And also: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105123, about “Express Mode”)
List of card-ful and card-less tap to pay / apple wallet pay public transit systems.
But it is not complete, because it does not mention the Dutch system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVpay
Paris has Bonjour RATP (official Paris area transportation app with Navigo card and you can do it all within the app and apple wallet apparently, so not quite what I want, but certainly no worse than Orca and similar).
Ooooh, Brussels has SEPTA level tap to ride (no passbacks)! Like NYC, capped, and even lower than NYC.
https://www.stib-mivb.be/article.html
Geneva / Switzerland: they have some weird tourist thing where your hotel emails you a QR code and you use that for public transport for length of stay. Alternatively, SBB app and turn on EasyRide, altho wow do I find that confusing.
https://www.sbb.ch/en/travel-information/apps/sbb-mobile/easyride.html
Vancouver BC: https://www.translink.ca/transit-fares/pricing-and-fare-zones
No passbacks, but otherwise pretty familiar; they solve the kid payment problem by not charging for kids. Seems reasonable.