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A new partnership between CBORD, a provider of campus card and integrated security solutions to colleges and universities, and Creative Mobile Technologies, a supplier of in-taxi media and payment technologies, allows Emerson College and Suffolk University students to pay for taxi rides using campus card funds.
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Recommendations include some internal, behind-the-scenes changes that would improve the bottom line but not impact riders. Other recommendations would address customer concerns, such as eliminating the complicated zoned-fare structure for MetroRail and providing more equitable discounts for various pass types.
Read More →Fare will not be raised by 15 cents on July 1, as initially planned. Staff is also exploring potential changes, including lowering the basic adult fare to $2, eliminating transfers and moving to a pay-per-boarding system and introducing a day pass, to increase ridership and revenue.
Read More →In the last six months, from June 2024 through December 2024, subway fare evasion is down 26%. Across buses, including both the local and express bus network, fare evasion is down by 9.1% over the same period of time.
Read More →Supports transit system's goal of recovering 52 percent of annual operational costs by 2017.
Read More →The board of directors voted this week to defer the increase after hearing that measures taken during the past two years to provide for long-term sustainable service have been successful. Also leading to the deferral is better than expected sales tax revenues, according to OCTA.
Read More →As ridership grows, the agency will continue to incorporate innovative ways to serve customers throughout the region and keep them safe on their journey.
Read More →Metro first will focus fare inspections on RapidRide routes, other high-ridership bus routes. and the Seattle Streetcar.
Read More →Partners with Sacramento Area Council of Governments for the installation of a multi-agency electronic fare collection solution on approximately 500 of the agencies’ buses and at more than 80 locations on rail station platforms.
Read More →The project is part of the agency’s plan to eliminate paper ticketing from its fare system to all contactless media by spring 2016.
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