They also say this is the only option for magstripe CharlieTickets... How on earth are they going to validate those fares? The on-board fareboxes printing out validation receipts? Asking the driver if they saw you pay?
Excellent question. More and more I'm suspecting they thought AFC 2.0 would be ready by the time the GLX opened and thought they wouldn't have any problem deleting the faregates. Can the fareboxes even print anything?
Mag stripe tickets are not valid after the 31st anyways.
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Looks like wellington, i thinkI had missed that, good to know.
Off topic, but what Orange Line station is in that picture?
Wellington? The station map to the left only lists 3 stations in the outbound direction (and that's towards Oak Grove as seen from the placement of blue and red lines).I had missed that, good to know.
Off topic, but what Orange Line station is in that picture?
Unless I'm very mistaken, as I haven't paid much attention to them in years, the inbound/ outbound directional strip maps in stations still have the station you're currently standing in shown to provide a point of reference. In that case, Wellington being the 3rd OL station counting from Oak Grove would confirm this ID.Wellington? The station map to the left only lists 3 stations in the outbound direction (and that's towards Oak Grove as seen from the placement of blue and red lines).
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Oh yes they made it very clear in the early community working group meetings that AFC 2 would be ready and that's why there would be no need for them to include fare validation equipment or gates. Why they don't just treat it like the rest of the surface green line I don't really understandExcellent question. More and more I'm suspecting they thought AFC 2.0 would be ready by the time the GLX opened and thought they wouldn't have any problem deleting the faregates. Can the fareboxes even print anything?
Oh yes they made it very clear in the early community working group meetings that AFC 2 would be ready and that's why there would be no need for them to include fare validation equipment or gates. Why they don't just treat it like the rest of the surface green line I don't really understand
Oh right I forgot that. But how will mag strip Charlie tickets validate?These are island platforms, so they can't do front-door-boarding like on the rest of the green line.
Is this even possible when union opens? Or is it a typo
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Is this at the corner of Somerville and Prospect?
But the stations don’t show up in transit mode for some reason, only on explore modeThe GLX is on Apple Maps for anyone with an iphone!