MBTA may have missed the point *bad rant*

[Gibson486]

So the MBTA finally accepts online payments for fares....great, maybe....

Once you pay for your fares online, you still have to go a pay station to "Activate" the payment. ....so you essentially pay at home and you still go to a pay station to verify the payment instead of just going to a pay station and swiping your credit card to pay there.....Hmmm....it sucked when I got on the T and my card was not accepted due to insufficient funds.

 

[Platypus]

lol, I thought Chicago's system was bad.

 

[keird]

Imagine how pissed off the scammers are that they can't skim the credit/debit cards of tens of thousands of potential victims.

 

[Jzero]

So...you have one of those Charlie Cards....you add money to it online...but then you still have to do something at one of the ticket kiosks before you can use it??

 

[Gibson486]

So...you have one of those Charlie Cards....you add money to it online...but then you still have to do something at one of the ticket kiosks before you can use it??

yup

 

[Gibson486]

You should also stop by the fenway stop. There is a charlie card kiosk. Next to it, there is this kiosk that has no sign. What you are supposed to do is use your charlie card to get a ticket that you still have to swipe when you enter the T. How f'n wasteful is that?