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Opening Transit Payments (with Urban Caffeine)

The Urbanist Agenda

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The Importance of Open Payment Systems

During the pandemic, people were encouraged to use credit cards just to keep it people from spreading cash. Even back then when we were still using the coin, there's these things called slugs where people would take like buttons or any piece of metal to make it look and feel like they can trick the machine so that they can get free of air. Have you ever been to the transit museum in New York? I highly recommend going. They have this whole display of all the different flugs they've collected over the years.

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