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- Thread starter Daveography
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dkazzed
Active Member
I'm shocked they went with Arc card fares and fare capping. They could have opted to go with cash fares for revenue generation with occasional riders but retained the same fare capping for frequent riders, but they chose to go with the full Arc card experience. I wonder if there is reduced administration and maintenance associated with having people tap? Or banking on increased ridership as mentioned.
Glenco
Senior Member
What is really annoying at Corona station is they have one Arc reader at the entrances to the platform and two ticket validators.
trevorhayden
Active Member
Has anyone called Arc's call center? I think it's based in the southern US. Everyone has intense Southern accents!
ADob
Active Member
Lethbridge maybe? 
IanO
Superstar
Converge part deux?
Glenco
Senior Member
Hooray they replaced the ticket validators at Corona with ARC readers.
thefreezebreeze
New Member
Took the bus the other day, I haven't used my arc card in a while so I wasn't sure how much I had on it (didn't bother checking). Decided to tap using apple pay and it worked really smoothly and was super convenient. I might go back to the arc card if I start taking transit regularly again, but tapping my phone is kinda game-changing for casual use.
Gus Haynes
Active Member
If you have a tappable credit or debit card, I don't even see what the point is of having an ARC card anymore? The fare is the same either way, isn't it? I stopped loading up my ARC card a few weeks ago for this reason.
degrandprix
Active Member
I also switched from Arc card to Google Pay since the open payment was added, it's been working great. You can even set it so you don't need to unlock your phone for "transit" payments, which it recognizes the Arc readers as. I assume Apply Pay has this option as well.
Blizzard
New Member
I have a similar setup with my smartwatch where I don't have to unlock it to tap on an Arc reader. It feels very futuristic and slick! I've even had some operators comment on it lol
Also, depending on your credit card, you may find that you get more cashback tapping your card/phone/smartwatch instead of using that same card to load money on your Arc account. I get 3% cashback when I tap vs. 1% when I use the same card to add funds to my Arc account. Just a quirk of the system I guess...
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Kosy123
Senior Member
I'm curious how much more casual riders or fares we're getting since this got rolled out.
Gotta agree with everyone else, taking transit is so much easier now with tap being implemented.
Gotta agree with everyone else, taking transit is so much easier now with tap being implemented.
Gus Haynes
Active Member
I noticed the same. I'm getting 2% cashback vs. just 1% with the old Arc card.