Well, the Metrocard drama seems to have continued today, and still no explanations.
Paul J. Fleuranges, the chief spokesman for New York City Transit, the arm of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority that runs the subways and buses, declined to speculate on the cause of the breakdown, but said “it was a systemwide outage affecting all or close to every” of the 2,245 machines. He characterized the problem as unprecedented in its magnitude. [NY Times]
Unprecedented. Wow. That’s greeeeat to hear.
It’s apparently a breakdown in network communication between the MTA’s system and the company that actually does the credit card processing.
Rumor has it that some people were actually charged for a Metrocard even though the machine said it was unable to process the transaction, and no card was dispensed. So check your statements people!
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SubwayBlogger… that is just too much love. Is that a plain clothes Transit Cop? Hey BTW your right sidebar seems to have dropped below the posts… are you missing a somewhere? Regards
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I really want to see the rest of that picture.
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@Todd – Well, you can see the face here: http://flickr.com/photos/edstern/529129740/
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