Ewwwwww.

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NYT on token-suckers under New York City, and how that city's phasing out of subway tokens in favor of a magcard-only system will make them go away.

I have to wonder: do we have these guys in Boston? (More than half of all subway fares in this city are still redeemed with tokens, if I understand correctly; we have magcards too, but only in the form of expensive monthly passes, not the temporary vending-machine cards I've bought for rides under SF and DC, and which I presume New York is getting too. (We allegedly have daily and weekly passes as well, but I've never actually seen one, so.))

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Weekly passes

[(Anonymous)]

I bought a weekly pass for my mom when she came up. It's a combo pass, too, so at 12.50, it is a better deal than the monthly passes. However, it's just a piece of paper, so you have get the coin vender's attention and have him unlock the gate or the turnstile. So it does not have the convenience of a monthly pass. I find not having to yell "EXCUSE ME" at the booth to be worth the $7 or so dollars more I pay for the monthly combo.

So now you know.

-moo