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Where Your Cash Fare Goes at Metro Transit

Ever wonder what happens to the dollars and coins you place in the fare boxes on buses and at light rail pay stations?

April 28, 2016

Ever wonder what happens to the dollars and coins you place in the fare boxes on buses and at light rail pay stations? Here's a behind the scenes look at Metro Transit's Central Counting Department, where a team of revenue processing specialists sort and stack piles of bills, feed mountains of coins through machines and organize them by denomination.