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Colorado transit agency eliminates cash acceptance on board buses. Few other U.S. agencies have shut down their fareboxes in favor of completely or near completely digital fare collection.
Executive Director Tanya Allen told Mobility Payments the agency stopped taking cash and paper tickets in its fareboxes March 17, despite the fact that this hardware accounted for approximately 40% of fare transactions only a month previously.
• Core Transit (Colo.)
• Knoxville Area Transit
• MBTA (Boston)
• Masabi
• GDRTA (Dayton)
Faced with the choice of replacing aging fareboxes on its bus fleet or stopping cash acceptance altogether on board the vehicles, a small regional U.S. transit agency in Colorado chose the latter–even though it had collected 40% of its fares in the fareboxes only a month earlier.
It made Core Transit, which serves several small communities located two hours outside of Denver, one of the few transit agencies in the U.S. to have gone cashless on board its public transit vehicles.
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