Re: Metrocard Gripe

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From: Joshua Benkin
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 00:00

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On 5 Jun 1996 18:36:10 GMT, dsutch@cais.cais.com (Dennis A. Sutch)
wrote:

>
>>Give me the efficient, under the street (but smelly), NYC subways,
>>over the huge manmade caverns, with escalators to the center of the
>>earth, METRO.  Metrorail is not really a subway system anyway, it is a
>>commuter train.
>
Bad news Dennis,

New York is phasing in a version of Washingtons Farecard called
Metrocard!  I cant wait to see tha chaos in rush hour at the Metrocard
machines at Times Square when the tokens are gone!

Joshua Benkin
>Yes.  But leave the crime.
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Subject: Re: Metrocard Gripe
Date: 1996/06/05
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