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"Adam H. Kerman" wrote:

I don't know what a transit system would do if it simply sold unlimited
ride passes with no credit bank to debit from. Does anyone know of
an example? In Chicago, one type of CTA Cubic fare media, Chicago Card Plus,
can be used for both single trips and monthly passes. It's linked to a
credit card. The monthly pass is applied to the card after debiting the
fee from the credit bank, and can also be used at the same time to pay the
single fare for accompanying passengers, although just one pass can be
encoded on it at a time.


The ORCA card in use in the Puget Sound area does not necessarily have
to be linked to a credit card. Cards that do not have a registered
owner can only be recharged from a vending machine or transit agency
office rather than through the web site.

As far as I know, it is possible to put a monthly pass of various types*
on the card at these vending machines using cash or credit card, but in
either case the machine supposedly only uses the card information for
conducting the single transaction.

* There are some seven agencies, with a single route on an 8th, that use
the card as a possible fare media. Thus, the need for various agencies
to be able to load their type of monthly pass onto the card.

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